A time limit privative clause differs from other types of privative clauses in that it is analogous to a statute of limitations. By its very nature, this type of privative clause does not constitute an absolute bar to ...

Argumentation allows agents to exchange additional information to argue about their beliefs and other mental attitudes during the negotiation process. Utterances and subsequent observations may differ during argumentation ...

The curves on well-logging parameter graph are very important to reservoir description. But how to keep the parameter graphs permanently and use the data implied in those curves efficiently are still open problems ...

An increase in enterprise's operational risk concerns a broader range of corporate stakeholders. Therefore, there is a need for integrated Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) system, in order to keep the enterprise competitive. ...

The primary objective of this paper was to examine the extent to which Gutman’s Means-End Chain Model can be used to describe the influences given to the choice of characteristics used in software evaluation. This objective ...

The connection between similarity logic and the theory of closure operators is examined. Indeed one proves that the consequence relation defined in [14] can be obtained by composing two closure operators and that the ...

This work combines a Bee Recurrent Neural Network (BRNN) optimized by the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm with Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) to generate a novel approximate model for predicting network reliability. ...

In this paper, we define a new research problem for mining approximate repeating patterns (ARP) with gap constraints, where the appearance of a pattern is subject to an approximate matching, which is very common in biological ...

A global symmetric period-1 approximate solution is analytically constructed for the non-resonant periodic response of a periodically excited piecewise nonlinear-linear oscillator. The approximate solutions are found to ...

Estimation theory has shown, owing to the limited estimation window available for real asset data, that the sample-based Markowitz mean-variance approach produces unreliable weights that fluctuate substantially over time. ...