Using clustering techniques for data classification is very common. In this paper a Self-Organizing Map model is used to carry out an estimation of the process state in a wastewater biological treatment using clustering algorithms and validation indexes. The estimation is used to improve the efficiency of the treatment plant. Key-Words: Self-organizing mapping, clustering, validation, wastewate...

CHR is a committed-choice rule-based language that was originally intended for writing constraint solvers. In this paper we show that it is also possible to write the classic union-find algorithm and variants in CHR. The programs neither compromise in declarativeness nor efficiency. Using CHR analysis techniques we study logical correctness, confluence and time complexity of our programs. We ob...

One of the important goals of banks as important economic enterprises of any country is to increase economic efficiency. One of the important goals of banks as important economic enterprises of any country is to increase economic efficiency. The classical approach to data envelopment analysis models takes into account the linear valuation function for all indicators. But linear valuation in man...

iv 1 Components of Reliability and U 1 2 Relative Utility Index Ur for Composite Scores 4 3 Estimating Ur for Raw Scores and Ũr for Scale Scores 5 3.1 Raw Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Scale Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2.1 Variance of T ̃ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 X 3.2.2 Covariance of T...

This paper studies a general notion of flatness in the enriched context: P-flatness where the parameter P stands for a class of presheaves. One obtains a completion of a category A by considering the category F latP(A) of P-flat presheaves over A. This completion is related to the free cocompletion under a class of colimits defined by Kelly. We define a notion of Q-accessible categories for a f...