In some quality control applications, the quality of a process or a product is described by the relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables, called a profile. Moreover, in most practical applications, the qualitative characteristic of a product/service is vague, uncertain and linguistic and cannot be precisely stated. The purpose of this paper is to propose a ...

Abstract: Polarization converters play an important role in antennas and radar. Electromagnetic band gap materials enable manufacture of polarization converters which are : low cost, low profile, light weight and have large bandwidth. In this paper mushroom-like electromagnetic band gap materials are considered for polarization converters. The theory is reviewed. A simple design procedure is de...

Abstract Economics and social science research often require analyzing datasets of sensitive personal information at fine granularity, with models fit to small subsets the data. Unfortunately, such fine-grained analysis can easily reveal individual information. We study regression algorithms that satisfy differential privacy , a constraint which guarantees an algorithm’s output reveals little a...

In this paper, we study the human action classification problem based on motion features directly extracted from video. In order to implement a fast classification system, we select simple features that can be obtained from non-intensive computation. We also introduce the new SVM 2K classifier that can achieve improved performance over a standard SVM by combining two types of motion feature vec...

In this paper we describe our effort on TREC 2015 Contextual Suggestion Track. Using opinions from online resources to model both user profile and candidate profile has been proven to be effective on previous TREC. This year we also leverage the power of building profile based on opinions. Opinions from well known commercial online resources are collected in order to build the profiles. Two kin...

Linear complexity can be used to detect predictable nonrandom sequences, and hence it is included in the NIST randomness test suite. But, as shown in this paper, the NIST test suite cannot detect nonrandom sequences that are generated, for instance, by concatenating two different M-sequences with low linear complexity. This defect comes from the fact that the NIST linear complexity test uses de...

In most modern manufacturing systems, products are often the output of some multistage processes. In these processes, the stages are dependent on each other, where the output quality of each stage depends also on the output quality of the previous stages. This property is called the cascade property. Although there are many studies in multistage process monitoring, there are fewer works on prof...