Ontologies have been commonly associated with representing a domain using deterministic information. Probabilistic Ontologies extend this capability by incorporating formal probabilistic semantics. PR-OWL is a language that extends OWL with semantics based on Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks (MEBN), a Bayesian probabilistic logic. Developing probabilistic ontologies can be greatly facilitated by ...

Heterogeneous and incomplete datasets are common in many real-world applications. The probabilistic nature of the Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM), which only handles complete continuous data originally, offers the ability to extend it to also visualise mixed-type and missing data as suggested in (Bishop et al., 1998a). This paper describes this generalisation of GTM and assesses the result...

Commercial businesses in an area affected by a natural hazard can have significant interruption and disruption because of damage impeding factors including financing delays. The recovery commercial buildings is necessary but not solely sufficient condition for owners to reopen their businesses. At the community-level modeling scale planning, ability model across entire community, short-term bus...

In harsh environments, offshore oil and gas support operations are subjected to frequent logistics supply chain operational disruption, due environmental factors with their associated risks. To capture these stochastic influential related decision making, it is helpful develop a robust dynamic probabilistic model. The current study presents proactive methodology that integrates the Pure-Birth M...

This paper presents a technique to provide seamless communications in mobile wireless networks. The goal of seamless communication is to provide disruption free service to a mobile user. A disruption in service could occur due to active handoos (handoos during an active connection). Existing protocols either provide total guarantee for disruption free service incurring heavy network bandwidth u...

there are many techniques to knock out directed genes in bacteria, some of which have been described in salmonella species. in this study, a combination of soeing pcr method and the λ red disruption system were used to disrupt phop gene in wild type and standard strains of salmonella typhimurium. three standards pcr and one fusion pcr reactions were performed to construct a linear dna including...

Lifted inference has been proposed for various probabilistic logical frameworks in order to compute the probability of queries in a time that depends on the size of the domains of the random variables rather than the number of instances. Even if various authors have underlined its importance for probabilistic logic programming (PLP), lifted inference has been applied up to now only to relationa...

In this paper, we study the problem of dynamic allocation of heterogeneous processors to parallel heterogeneous job traffic flows. Each traffic flow is a stationary ergodic random marked point process, with a parameter (traffic intensity rate) that depends on the job class. The service rates of the various job flows depend on both the job class and the processor class. This model captures the e...

The impact of a biological invasion on native communities is expected to be uneven across invaded landscapes due differences in local abiotic conditions, invader abundance, and traits composition the community. One way improve predictive ability about an invasive species given variable conditions exploit known mechanisms driving species' success. Invasive plants frequently exhibit allelopathic ...