Data mining is concerned with applying techniques which automatically induce new patterns or knowledge from large data. Typically these patterns are expressed as a descriptive or predictive model. In this work we focus on predictive models which aim to predict a certain characteristic of the data in terms of other known characteristics. Usually one such model is built to perform the task of pre...

In this paper, a new T-S fuzzy hyperbolic delay model for a class of nonlinear systems with time-varying delay, is presented to address the problems of stability analysis and feedback control. Fuzzy controller is designed based on the parallel distributed compensation (PDC), and with a new Lyapunov function, delay dependent asymptotic stability conditions of the closed-loop system are derived v...

This paper presents the results of hydraulic model tests on the stability of rubble mound breakwaters with armour layers of antifer cubes. The tests were performed using irregular waves. The effect of wave parameters and the structure slope on the stability of these artificial armour units has been investigated and the stability formulae have been derived. Finally a comparison between these for...

Among the intermolecular interactions, the Casimir and van der Waals forces are the most important forces that highly affect the behavior of nanostructures. This paper studies the effect of such forces on the adhesion of cantilever freestanding nanostructures. The nanostructures are made of a freestanding nano-beam which is suspended between two upper and lower conductive surfaces. The linear s...

In this chapter we rst review results on a famous method to obtain estimators in a semiparametric setup, the pro le likelihood method, which is a two-step maximization method based on the likelihood. Then we discuss a generalization called penalized pro le likelihood method, which is introduced in Murphy & van der Vaart (1999) and in Dalalyan et al. (2006). It allows among other properties to d...

Prefetching – die vorsorgliche Übertragung in Zukunft wahrscheinlich benötigter Daten – stellt in verteilten Client-Server-Systemen ein wichtiges Konzept dar, um die Leistungsfähigkeit, Interaktivität und Performanz des Gesamtsystems zu verbessern. Gerade für Rich-ClientAnwendungen, bei denen die Applikationslogik in den Clients untergebracht ist, birgt ein gut an das System angepasstes Prefetc...

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