Point-referenced spatial data often come as multivariate measurements at each location. Examples: Environmental monitoring: stations yield measurements on ozone, NO, CO, and PM2.5. Community ecology: assembiages of plant species due to water availibility, temerature, and light requirements. Forestry: measurements of stand characteristics age, total biomass, and average tree diameter. Atmospheri...

This paper presents a newmodel of support vector machines (SVMs) that handle data with tolerance and uncertainty. The constraints of the SVM are converted to fuzzy inequality. Giving more relaxation to the constraints allows us to consider an importance degree for each training samples in the constraints of the SVM. The new method is called relaxed constraints support vector machines (RSVMs). A...

Unit quaternion is an ideal parameterization for joint rotations. However, due to the complexity of the geometry of S group, it’s hard to specify meaningful joint constraints with unit quaternion. In this paper, we have proposed an effective and accurate method to specify the rotation limits for joints parameterized with the unit quaternion. Joint constrains constructed with our method are adeq...

The global eradication of measles is desirable because the disease occurs almost universally, affects large numbers of children, can cause serious complications, and is responsible for about 900 000 deaths a year in developing countries. The feasibility of a measles eradication programme is suggested by the success of smallpox eradication, the availibility of a heat-stable, cheap, and effective...

Ground-state properties are central to our understanding of quantum many-body systems. At first glance, it seems natural and essential obtain the ground state before analyzing its properties; however, exponentially large Hilbert space has made such studies costly, if not prohibitive, on sufficiently system sizes. Here, we propose an alternative strategy based upon expectation values ensemble op...

abstract: this paper considers the problem of scheduling n jobs on m unrelated parallel machines with sequence-dependent setup times. to better comply with industrial situations, jobs have varying due dates and ready times and there are some precedence relations between them. furthermore sequence-dependent setup times and anticipatory setups are included in the proposed model. the objective is ...