The eikonal equation and variants of it are of significant interest for problems in computer vision and image processing. It is the basis for continuous versions of mathematical morphology, stereo, shapefrom-shading a...
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A Web-based tool for retrieval of documents containing disparate types of data from a large collection is described. This tool uses a relational database system to implement information retrieval methodologies and all...
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A new methodology has been developed for automated optimal design of two dimensional high speed inlets. A semi-empirical flow solver and an improved Genetic Algorithm are linked within an automated loop. The purpose o...
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The concept of temporally sensitive fuzzy neural networks is introduced based on combining the basic ideas of logic-based neurocomputing with the concept of temporally sensitive connections of neural networks. This ne...
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The concept of temporally sensitive fuzzy neural networks is introduced based on combining the basic ideas of logic-based neurocomputing with the concept of temporally sensitive connections of neural networks. This new class of neural networks helps address two main issues arising in time-dependent modeling environments. Firstly, these neural networks capture the underlying logical fabric of the problem and, secondly, they provide a useful insight into the temporal nature of the modeling environment. The authors show that the continuously changeable temporal environment gives rise to a logical transformation of the introduced model. This transformation is implemented by triggering from its original AND-like nature to an OR-like version, with this triggering regarded as a function of time. This paper discusses fuzzy decision-making in detail, particularly real estate problem solving.
Because optical diffusion imaging is a highly nonlinear inverse problem, iterative inversion algorithms based on the Born approximation have usually been employed as reconstruction technique, but convergence is slow, ...
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Because optical diffusion imaging is a highly nonlinear inverse problem, iterative inversion algorithms based on the Born approximation have usually been employed as reconstruction technique, but convergence is slow, especially for high contrast parameter distributions. We show here that the slow convergence of the conventional algorithms is due to the linear integral operator derived by the Born approximation not being the optimal Frechet derivative. We derive the optimal Frechet derivative operator with respect to the spatially varying absorption and scattering coefficients in integral form, and then develop a new iterative inversion algorithm.
A numerical code has been developed for automatic aerodynamic optimization of supersonic 3- D inlet design with a high value of total pressure recovery coefficient with the aid of an improved Genetic Algorithm (GADO)....
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A consortium of three main sites consisting of the Center for Earth Observing and Space Research (CEOSR) at George Mason University (GMU), the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) and the NASA Goddard Space...
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A consortium of three main sites consisting of the Center for Earth Observing and Space Research (CEOSR) at George Mason University (GMU), the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GDAAC) has been formed. This consortium was recently funded by NASA's Earth science Information Partner program to provide data and information products serving the needs of seasonal to interannual (S-I) scientists and other related science communities. Specifically, CEOSR will provide information technology and a distributed system architecture as wall as specific data products to be accessed by the scientific communities, COLA will provide scientific direction and a widely-used tool in the S-I research communities and GDAAC data management and archiving. Along with several other contributors, our consortium will create an interdisciplinary source of data for S-I researchers to expand the usage and usefulness of NASA data and serve as broker on behalf of the S-I researchers by providing them enhanced access to NASA's data. The consortium under guidance by an advisory board of experts will select the most appropriate data from the DAAC, NOAA, COLA and the University of Delaware for S-I research applications. Metadata and summary statistics will be extracted and stored in databases at distributed nodes, while the data will be stored on an advanced array of disks. There will be a JAVA-based WWW user interface featuring three advances: (1) content-based searching of the summary metadata (2) exploratory analysis of on-line data and (3) phenomenon-based searching. The consortium will be responsive to the changing needs of its science users as well as in tune with significant information technology advances.
We investigate the ability of oscillating neural circuits to switch between different states of oscillation in two basic neural circuits. We model two quite distinct small neural circuits. The first circuit is based o...
We investigate the ability of oscillating neural circuits to switch between different states of oscillation in two basic neural circuits. We model two quite distinct small neural circuits. The first circuit is based on invertebrate central pattern generator (CPG) studies [A. I. Selverston and M. Moulins, The Crustacean Stomatogastric System (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987)] and is composed of two neurons coupled via both gap junction and inhibitory synapses. The second consists of coupled pairs of interconnected thalamocortical relay and thalamic reticular neurons with both inhibitory and excitatory synaptic coupling. The latter is an elementary unit of the thalamic networks passing sensory information to the cerebral cortex [M. Steriade, D. A. McCormick, and T. J. Sejnowski, science 262, 679 (1993)]. Both circuits have contradictory coupling between symmetric parts. The thalamocortical model has excitatory and inhibitory connections and the CPG has reciprocal inhibitory and electrical coupling. We describe the dynamics of the individual neurons in these circuits by conductance based ordinary differential equations of Hodgkin-Huxley type [J. Physiol. (London) 117, 500 (1952)]. Both model circuits exhibit bistability and hysteresis in a wide region of coupling strengths. The two main modes of behavior are in-phase and out-of-phase oscillations of the symmetric parts of the network. We investigate the response of these circuits, while they are operating in bistable regimes, to externally imposed excitatory spike trains with varying interspike timing and small amplitude pulses. These are meant to represent spike trains received by the basic circuits from sensory neurons. Circuits operating in a bistable region are sensitive to the frequency of these excitatory inputs. Frequency variations lead to changes from in-phase to out-of-phase coordination or vice versa. The signaling information contained in a spike train driving the network can place the circuit into one or ano
In this paper, we present several new and generalized parallel dense matrix multiplication algorithms of the form C = α AB + β C on two-dimensional process grid topologies. These algorithms can deal with rectangular...
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