This study focused on the optimization of Al—Mg to CuZn34 friction stir lap welding (FSLW) process for optimal combination of rotational and traverse speeds in order to yield favorable fracture load using Grey relational analysis (GRA). First, the degree of freedom was calculated for the system. Then, the experiments based on the target values and number of considered levels, corresponding orth...

Despite the vital role of information in relational-oriented firms, there are limited studies on the impact of information quality on relationship marketing. To address this gap, this study develops a conceptual model to examine the impact of information quality on the successful implementation of relationship marketing by assessing the mediating role of salespeople's relational competency. The...

Traditional cryptographic hash functions allow one to easily check whether the original plaintexts are equal or not, given a pair of hash values. Probabilistic hash functions extend this concept where given a probabilistic hash of a value and the value itself, one can efficiently check whether the hash corresponds to the given value. However, given distinct probabilistic hashes of the same valu...

Traditional cryptographic hash functions allow one to easily check whether the original plaintexts are equal or not, given a pair of hash values. Probabilistic hash functions extend this concept where given a probabilistic hash of a value and the value itself, one can efficiently check whether the hash corresponds to the given value. However, given distinct probabilistic hashes of the same valu...

Relational reasoning ability relies upon by both cognitive and social factors. We compared analogical reasoning performance in healthy controls (HC) to performance in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and individuals with schizophrenia (SZ). The experimental task required participants to find correspondences between drawings of scenes. Participants were asked to infer which item ...

Using a dynamic hypermedia engine (DHE), we propose to automate the following features for database systems, both on and off the Web. First we automatically generate links based on the database's relational (physical) schema and its original (non-normalized) entity-relationship specification. Second, the application developer can specify which kinds of database elements are related to diverse e...

Fuzzy queries addressed to a relational database management system are based on the expression of user preferences which leads to obtain more appropriate answers. Fuzzy set theory provides powerful tools to define such conditions (fuzzy conditions). In this context, it is possible to consider fuzzy bipolar conditions which are made of two fuzzy sets to describe user's preferences: i) a fuzzy co...

A document type deenition (DTD) D deenes the structure of elements permitted in any web document valid with respect to D. From a given DTD D we show how to derive a number of simple structural constraints which are implied by D. Using a relational abstraction of web databases, we consider a class of conjunctive queries which retrieve elements from web documents stored in a database D. For simpl...

One of the most ubiquitous elements of modern computing is the relational database. Very few modern applications are created without some sort of database backend. Unfortunately, relational database concepts are fundamentally very different from those used in generalpurpose programming languages. This creates an impedance mismatch between the the application and the database layers. One solutio...

The popularization of parallelism is arguably the most fundamental computing challenge for years to come. We present an approach where parallel programming takes place in a restricted (sub-Turing-complete), logic-based declarative language, embedded in Java. Our logic-based language, PQL, can express the parallel elements of a computing task, while regular Java code captures sequential elements...