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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mechanical Design and Analysis of an Articulated-Tracked Robot for Pipe Inspection
In order to execute the task of inspecting welding defects, spray painting and corrosive status inside a pipe automatically, an articulated-tracked robot was designed to replace the manual labor. In this paper...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mixed-Fleet Ferry Routing and Scheduling
This study formulates a mixed-fleet ferry routing and scheduling model while considering passengers’ choices for differential services. Ferry services with different operation characteristics and passengers wi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Theory and Approach to Improving Relevance Ranking in Web Retrieval
The development of the World Wide Web (WWW) makes a huge amount of information available on-line, and the amount of information continues to increase. As of March 2001 the Google search engine searches 1,346,9...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Non-Euclidean Model for Web Retrieval
A non-Euclidean model is proposed for resolving problems in similarity-based retrieval. This model establishes a theoretical basis and implementational guidelines for designing similarity-based Web retrieval s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A global measure of ambiguity for classification
This paper suggests a a global measure of ambiguity based on the notion of an interval structure which can be viewed as a qualitative measure of belief. It is shown that the boundary region in the roughset mod...