We present a method, applicable to corpus-based concatenative synthesis and specifically to audio mosaicing, that assists the composer in exploring the relationship between the parameterization of a concatenative algorithm and the resulting similarity between the output sound and the original target soundfile. Rather than focus solely on straightforward imitation, our work is predicated upon th...

Similarity between source analogues and target problems is a central theme in the research on analogical transfer. Much of the theorizing and research has focused on the effects of superficial and structural similarity on transfer. The present research is an attempt to analyze systematically another critical type of similarity, namely, procedural similarity, and to examine its effects on the ex...

In this paper, the main aim is that of presenting a valid solution to a problem of computational linguistics through the presentation of a real case-study. Surveying different existing measures and techniques of semantic similarity it is proposed a valid solution to determine the degree of semantic similarity and, consequently, the relatedness of two concepts.

Recently, social recommendation becomes a hot research direction, which leverages social relations among users to alleviate data sparsity and cold-start problems in recommender systems. The social recommendation methods usually employ simple similarity information of users as social regularization on users. Unfortunately, the widely used social regularization may suffer from several aspects: (1...

The objective of this article is to develop an empirically based framework for formulating and selecting a vendor in supply chain. This study applies the fuzzy set theory to evaluate the vendor selection decision. Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in obtaining criteria weights and applied Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Idea Solution (TOPSIS) for obtaining final ranking...

The paper presents analysis of two-dimensional non-Newtonian incompressible viscous flow between parallel plates. The governing problem of momentum equations are reduced to NODE using similarity transformations. The resulting equation is solved using series solution and homotopy analysis method. These methods have advantages over pure numerical methods for obtaining the derived quantities accur...