In this paper, we focus our attention on the processing of the uncertainty encountered in the natural langusge. Firstly, we explore the uncertainty concept and then we suggest a new approach which enables a representation of the uncertainty by using linguistic values. The originality of our approach is that it allows to reason on the symbolic uncertainty interval ~Certain, Totally uncertain]. T...

A concept of information as asymmetry in multiple dimensions is based on the demonstration that causal action, not hypothetical chance events, is a parsimonious explanation of novelty. The study of heartbeat variation revealed creative features in causal processes, namely greater novelty than random variation, decrease in entropy, temporal change in pattern, and progressive increase in variance...

Electromyographic control systems based on pattern recognition have become an established technique in upper limb prosthetic control application. This paper describes a use of fuzzy logic to discriminate different hand grip postures by processing the surface EMG from wrist muscles. A moving data window of two hundred values is applied to the SEMG data and a new method called moving approximate ...

One of the problems a requester faces when crowdsourcing a microtask is that, due to the underspecifie or ambiguous task description, workers may misinterpret the microtask at hand. We call a set of such interpretations worker viewpoints. In this paper, we argue that assisting requesters to gather a worker’s interpretation of the microtask can help in providing useful feedback to designers, who...

By-Domotor, Zoltan Probabilistic Relational Structures and Their Applications Stanford Univ., Calif. Inst. for Mathematical Studies in Social Science. Pub Date May 69 Note-171p; Technical Report Nc, 144 Psychology Series EDRS Price MF -10.75 HC-$8.65 Descriptors-Logic, *Mathematical Applications, *Mathematical Concepts, *Mathematics, *Probabihty, *Probability Theory The principal objects of the...

The Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy is a far reaching dynamical generalization of Shannon entropy of information systems. This entropy works perfectly for probability measure preserving (p.m.p.) transformations. However, it is not useful when there is no finite invariant measure. There are certain successful extensions of the notion of entropy to infinite measure spaces, or transformations with ...

In information security, ignorance is not bliss. It is always stated that hiding the protocols (let the other be ignorant about it) does not increase the security of organizations. However, there are cases that ignorance creates protocols. In this paper, we propose distributed contingency logic, a proper extension of contingency (ignorance) logic. Intuitively, a formula is distributed contingen...

in this paper, second law analysis for calculations of the entropy generation due to the flow andheat transfer of water-al2o3 and ethylene glycol-al2o3 nanofluids inside annuli is presented. thephysical properties of the nanofluids are calculated using empirical correlations. constant heatfluxes at inner surface of the annuli are considered and fully developed condition for fluid flowand heat t...