Developing Question Answering systems has been one of the important research issues because it requires insights from a variety of disciplines, including, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, and Psychology. In this paper we realize a formal model for a lightweight semantic–based open domain yes/no Arabic question answering system ...

The mechanics of masonry structures have been for long underdeveloped in comparison with other fields of knowledge, presently, non-linear analysis being a very popular field in research. Masonry is a composite material made with units and mortar, which presents a clear microstructure. The issue of mechanical data necessary for advanced non-linear analysis is addressed first, with a set of recom...

In this paper we present a fast and efficient method to find partial weight enumerator (PWE) for binary linear block codes by using the error impulse technique and Monte Carlo method. This PWE can be used to compute an upper bound of the error probability for the soft decision maximum likelihood decoder (MLD). As application of this method we give partial weight enumerators and analytical perfo...

Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has become an alternative method of computing a variety of fluid flows, ranging from low Reynolds number laminar flows to highly turbulent flows. For turbulent flows, non-uniform grids are preferred. Taylor series expansionand least-squares-based LBM (TLLBM) is an effective and convenient way to extend standard LBM to be used on arbitrary meshes. In order to show ...

Development of a new meshless technique is described, called the meshless volume scheme. The method is completely meshless, yet retains the low storage and simple flux distribution technique characteristic of finite volume methods. The new method is based on the well-known Taylor series expansion method with least squares. A least squares weighting scheme is introduced that significantly reduce...

In this work we report preliminary results of automatically generating parallel code from equation-based models together at two levels: Performing inline expansion of a Runge-Kutta solver combined with finegrained automatic parallelization of the resulting RHS opens up new possibilities for generating high performance code, which is becoming increasingly relevant when multi-core computers are b...

A new type of variable coefficient Runge-Kutta-Nyström methods is proposed for solving the initial value problems of the special form y(t) = f(t, y(t)). The method is based on the exact integration of some given functions in order to solve the problem exactly when the solution is the linear combination of these functions. If this is not the case, the algebraic order (order of accuracy) of the m...

In this paper we intend to offer new numerical methods to solvethe fuzzy Fredholm- Volterra integral equations of the firstkind $(FVFIE-1)$. Some examples are investigated to verify convergence results and to illustrate the efficiently of the methods.