Formal methods may be at the crossroads of acceptance by a wider industrial community. In order for the techniques to become widely used, the gap between theorists and practitioners must be bridged effectively. In par...
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Formal methods (in a broad sense) have been around almost since the beginning of computer science. Nonetheless, there is a perception in the formal methods community that take-up by industry is low considering the pot...
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This research introduces a novel approach, MBO-NB, that leverages Migrating Birds Optimization (MBO) coupled with Naive Bayes as an internal classifier to address feature selection challenges in text classification ha...
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Background: Embryo selection procedure is one of the critical success factors in in vitro fertilization treatment. Various embryo selection technologies have emerged within the past decade. These technologies are eit...
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Background: Embryo selection procedure is one of the critical success factors in in vitro fertilization treatment. Various embryo selection technologies have emerged within the past decade. These technologies are either used in combination with morphology or introduced to replace the conventional morphological evaluation. This review aims at investigating the effect of these novel embryo selection technologies on in vitro fertilization success rates. Methods: A systematic review of the literature was performed among full-text English articles in the PubMed database. Study selection was based on the predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Clinical effectiveness of the selected studies was measured in terms of implantation, pregnancy, live birth, and multiple pregnancy rates. Results: Five studies were identified that fitted the inclusion criteria. In these studies, researchers used aneuploidy screening, metabolomic profiling, and time-lapse imaging analysis as the new technologies. Among these studies, the one that conducted a randomized controlled trial of a commercial time-lapse imaging system demonstrated significant improvement in implantation rate. Conclusion: Studies using emerging technologies for embryo assessment provide promising results in retrospective analysis. On the other hand, randomized controlled trial studies that test the efficacy of novel embryo selection techniques in clinical practice failed to demonstrate a consistent improvement in the resulting success rates. This review provides a snapshot of the most recent literature on embryo assessment and embryo selection studies. Our findings show that there is a lack of comparative measurements and analyses that are able to assess benefits of the novel technologies in the field of embryo selection.
The multilevel inverters (MLIs) are classified into three topologies such as Diode Clamped, Flying Capacitor and Cascade Multilevel Inverter (CMLI). CMLI topologies include two kind of structure that is named symmetri...
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The authors present their latest research results and developments of a code generator for Matlab/Simulink block diagrams and to download the generated code onto safety related systems such as a safety PLC (programmab...
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The authors present their latest research results and developments of a code generator for Matlab/Simulink block diagrams and to download the generated code onto safety related systems such as a safety PLC (programmable logic controller). An example demonstrates the different stages for code generation, evaluation and conversion before such code can be used in process industries. Systematic approaches are necessary when such source code is embedded in process units. To the best knowledge of the authors, Matlab/Simulink source code has not been transferred on safety PLC before. Matlab/Simulink is an advanced and matured programming environment, especially for simulations of engineering processes and systems. Hardly no hardware exists, when it comes to download the developed algorithms and to use it in real world applications and so far this approach is the only one for using developed and tested Matlab/Simulink software on an safety related system.
Water is the key component of life on planet Earth. Although most of the Earth's surface is covered by water only a very small percentage of it is drinkable "fresh water." Drinkable water quality is infl...
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Water is the key component of life on planet Earth. Although most of the Earth's surface is covered by water only a very small percentage of it is drinkable "fresh water." Drinkable water quality is influenced by several factors, like the construction of dams and embankments, the irrigation practices, and the anthropogenic activities. In order to control water quality, it is essential to understand the sources of pollutants by frequent water quality monitoring. Conventional monitoring of water quality calls for the collection of large numbers of samples and long delays until the results are available. Therefore, rapid monitoring of water quality is very important, proven by the large number of systems proposed for this kind of automatic monitoring. In this work, we propose a wireless sensor network (WSN)-based monitoring system controlled by a web-based online interface which allows the remote water quality monitoring via Internet. This brings advantages over traditional monitoring systems in terms of cost effectiveness, portability and applicability. Simulation-based studies concerning the wireless network aspects, as well as the practical output of the proposed system are presented for the evaluation of its effectiveness.
CONTEXT: Versioning allows users to efficiently create and evolve artifacts, not only but especially in the domain of model-driven engineering. Due to collaboration tools, the place and time where users jointly work a...
CONTEXT: Versioning allows users to efficiently create and evolve artifacts, not only but especially in the domain of model-driven engineering. Due to collaboration tools, the place and time where users jointly work at their artifacts do not play an important role anymore. Objective: We systematically elaborated a classification framework for collaboration and versioning tools. The intention is threefold: First, it should be possible to classify existing approaches. Second, deriving from user goals requirements to be met, and capabilities to be supported by a new tool. Third, given a set of capabilities, highlight which user goals can be achieved. Method: According to Kang and Lee, we systematically elaborated a problem space and a solution space and created mappings between both spaces and their sub-spaces. To demonstrate the applicability, we classified existing VCS like git, Google Docs, and several MDE-specific approaches. Results: The created feature diagram covers 238 features and contains about 87 constraints. Conclusion: The developed framework supports researchers and developers in classifying their tools, revealing new opportunities to improve their tools, and guiding the development of new tools.
Since the last few decades, the prey-predator system delivers attractive mathematical models to analyse the dynamics of prey-predator interaction. Due to the lack of precise information about the natural parameters, a...
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In this work, a new similarity measure was proposed based on the heights and areas of interval-valued trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Some properties corresponding to the proposed similarity measure were illustrated. A com...
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In this work, a new similarity measure was proposed based on the heights and areas of interval-valued trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Some properties corresponding to the proposed similarity measure were illustrated. A comparison with the different existing similarity-measurement techniques demonstrated that the proposed method gave better results, overcoming the drawbacks of the existing methods. The proposed similarity-measurement technique was applied to the prediction of risk in the burning problem of Familial Breast Cancer (FBC). Finally, a numerical illustration for FBC was given using interval-valued trapezoidal fuzzy numbers.
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