This paper deals with the construction of a maximally flexible corpus architecture for building and analyzing diachronic corpora. Historical data poses many challenges with regard to representation and analysis, and diachronic corpora are even more varied and unsystematic (Claridge, 2008). Since historical and diachronic corpora are so difficult and expensive to build, it is crucial that they b...

Prediction of solar irradiance has great significance to photovoltaic power forecasting and the scheduling plan of power generation. Aim at unsatisfactory prediction accuracy of traditional forecasting methods, this paper presents an approach to predict solar irradiance of photovoltaic power station based on wavelet decomposition and extreme learning machine. With historical irradiance sequence...

Delhi is one of the ancient historical and greatest cultural cities of the World. Delhi’s two monuments the Qutb Minar and Humayun’s Tomb have been declared the World Cultural Heritage sites. Delhi was built and rebuilt seven times on different sites through out the history within a triangular area of about 142.20 sq. kms. lying between the last ridge of the Aravalli Range and the River Yamuna....

In the strengthening interventions of past and historical masonry constructions, the non-standardized manufacture processes, the ageing and the damage of masonry units, could significantly affect the properties of the surfaces where strengthening materials are applied. This aspect requires particular care in evaluating the performance of externally bonded strengthening layers, especially with r...

In this short overview paper, we describe our vision for combining task and motion planning and present a historical perspective to show which parts of it have already become reality. Robots do not have to plan only once but repeatedly. Replanning from scratch is often very time consuming. Incremental heuristic search addresses this issue by reusing information from previous searches to find so...

Many thresholding-based image enhancement techniques have been developed and used for document analysis, where the simplicity and efficiency of thresholding makes it ideal to use for classifying layers within documents. However, the efficiency of these enhancement techniques can be impaired by the variation of grey levels in different documents, thus causing over-thresholding or under-threshold...

Historic practice has been to optically monitor narrow bandpass filters by the termination of each layer at a turning point. The problem is that turning points are the least sensitive points to the change of the optical signal with thickness and, thereby, those points are most prone to errors. It is shown that better performance in the production results can be achieved by designing and monitor...

Two general claims are made in this work. First, we need several different layers of "theory," in particular for understanding human behavior. These layers should concern: the cognitive (mental) representations and mechanisms; the neural underlying processes; the evolutionary history and adaptive functions of our cognition and behaviors; the emergent and complex social structures and dynamics, ...

An important issue faced by risk analysts is how to deal with uncertainties associated with accident scenarios. In industry, one often uses single values derived from historical data or literature to estimate events probability or their frequency. However, both dynamic environments of systems and the need to consider rare component failures may make unrealistic this kind of data. In this paper,...