the behavior of earth dams has particular complexities against dynamic forces and its assessment requiresdetailed and scientific analysis. the farrokhi earth dam is a heterogeneous type with vertical clay core, built 150 km away from birjand and 41 km away from qaen on the farrokhi river. there are concernsregarding the stability of this dam in the event of a future severe earthquake especially...

We propose a proximity probabilistic model (PPM) that advances a bag-of-words probabilistic retrieval model. In our proposed model, a document is transformed to a pseudo document, in which a term count is propagated to other nearby terms. Then we consider three heuristics, i.e., the distance of two query term occurrences, their order, and term weights, and try four kernel functions in measuring...

There are presented the basic operations on real intervals: pseudo-addition and pseudo multiplication which induce the semiring structure. Application of special pseudo-operations on the unit interval: t-norms and t-conorms, in the theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logics are given. Pseudo-convolution as a generalization of the classical convolution is given, with many important special cases. Fur...

Mathematical morphology offers popular image processing tools, successfully used for binary and grayscale images. Recently, its extension to color images has become of interest and several approaches were proposed. Due to various issues arising from the vectorial nature of the data, none of them imposed as a generally valid solution. We propose a probabilistic pseudo-morphological approach, by ...

The problem of finding the most probable string for a distribution generated by a weighted finite automaton or a probabilistic grammar is related to a number of important questions: computing the distance between two distributions or finding the best translation (the most probable one) given a probabilistic finite state transducer. The problem is undecidable with general weights and is NP-hard ...

failure of the quay walls due to earthquakes results in severe economic loss. because of hazards threatening such inexpensive nodes of national and international transportation networks, seismic design of quay walls is still an evolving topic in marine structural engineering. this study investigates the sensitivity of the gravity-type quay wall stability respect to uncertain soil and seismic pr...

In this paper, we prove that every F ∗ space (i.e., Hausdorff topological vector space satisfying the first countable axiom) can be characterized by means of its “standard generating family of pseudo-norms”. By using the standard generating family of pseudo-norms P, the concepts of P-bounded set and γ-maxpseudo-norm-subadditive operator in F ∗ space are introduced. The uniform boundedness princ...