Increasingly many knowledge bases are published as Linked Data, driving the need for effective and efficient techniques for information access. Knowledge repositories are naturally organised around objects or entities and constitute a promising data source for entity-oriented search. There is a growing body of research on the subject, however, it is almost always (implicitly) assumed that a cen...

this paper focuses on formulating capacity-price trade off problem in yield management for manufactur-ing industry by drawing motivation from the remarkable success of yield management (ym) implementation in airlines. in the current practice, there is no alternative and procedure for the manufacturer, as well as cus-tomers to take advantage of using the unfulfilled capacity in discounted offers...

One of the designs of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) requires that a machine population be partitioned into machine cells. Numerous methods are available for clustering machines into machine cells. One method involves using a similarity coefficient. Similarity coefficients between machines are not absolute, and they still need more attention from researchers. Although there are a number o...

Most of the metal additive manufacturing technologies are focused on high cost and high end applications. There is in need, a low cost additive manufacturing technology suitable for low and high end metallic applications. Robotic automated welding can be considered as an alternative to manufactured large scale metal parts with layer by layer approach. However, many obstacles have to be overcome...

We introduce a new sequence-similarity kernel, the spectrum kernel, for use with support vector machines (SVMs) in a discriminative approach to the protein classification problem. Our kernel is conceptually simple and efficient to compute and, in experiments on the SCOP database, performs well in comparison with state-of-the-art methods for homology detection. Moreover, our method produces an S...

Background: The aim of this present study is to explore what makes orienteering meaningful and rewarding former elite athletes’ years or even decades after ending their careers. Methods: Applying a qualitative approach with case design, data was collected through semi-structured interviews 11 orienteers from Norway Sweden, the subsequently analyzed thematic analysis, resulting in two main theme...