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A Fuzzy Method for Learning Simple Boolean Formulas from Examples
We discuss a method for inferring Boolean functions from examples. The method is inherently fuzzy in two respects: i) we work with a pair of formulas...
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Soft Computing Paradigms for Web Access Pattern Analysis
Web servers play a crucial role to convey knowledge and information to the end users. With the popularity of the WWW, discovering the hidden...
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Ontology-based Fuzzy Decision Agent and Its Application to Meeting Scheduling Support System
A Fuzzy Decision Agent (FDA) based on personal ontology for Meeting Scheduling Support System (MSSS) is proposed in this chapter. In this system,...
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D-GridMST: Clustering Large Distributed Spatial Databases
In this paper, we will propose a novel distributable clustering algorithm, called Distributed-GridMST (D–GridMST for short), which deals with large...
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Data Mining of Missing Persons Data
This paper presents the results of analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of data mining techniques to predict the outcome for missing persons cases....
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1. Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems
When you begin to read this book, you may ask: “what is a switched and impulsive system?” This is a question that may be best answered through...
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Use of Fuzzy Feature Descriptions to Recognize Handwritten Alphanumeric Characters
The main challenge in handwritten character recognition involves the development of a method that can generate descriptions of the handwritten...
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A Longitudinal Comparison of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Approaches to Iso-Resource Grou** for Acute Healthcare in Australia
Estimating resource consumption of hospital patients is important for various tasks such as hospital funding, and management and allocation of...
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9. Switched Scalable Video Coding Systems
Scalable video coding means that a video sequence is only encoded once and the coded bitstream has the capability of sending any sub-bitstream...
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Marginal Filter Stability
Two fundamental aspects in the use of the Kalman Filter for simultaneous localization and map** are the issues of observability and...
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C Sigma Points
A set of p + 1 sigma points $\mathcal{S} = \{\mathcal{X}^i, W^i\}$...
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13 Usability of an Assistive Robot Manipulator: Toward a Quantitative User Evaluation
This chapter describes our research activity on the integration of a robotic arm in the environment of persons with disabilities. People who have...
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2 Rehabilitation Robotics from Past to Present – A Historical Perspective
Popular culture presents the image of a robot as a mechanical, humanoid device, often evil in intent. Those with a slightly more informed technical...
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12 Risk Reduction Mechanisms for Safe Rehabilitation Robots
Safety is one of the most important features of rehabilitation robots. However, strategies for safe rehabilitation robots are not yet clarified. A...
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4 Welfare-Oriented Service Robotic Systems: Intelligent Sweet Home & KARES II
Utopia – it would be a society where the welfare of the people is properly guaranteed. In the society, each constituent would live his/her life with...
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5 “FRIEND” – An Intelligent Assistant in Daily Life
The research and development in the field of rehabilitation robots produced a multiplicity of rehabilitation robots available as off-the- shelf...
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6 GIVING-A-HAND System: The Development of a Task-Specific Robot Appliance
The rapidly changing demographics in industrialized nations create a pressing need for effective personal assistive aids that appeal to elderly and...
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Content Based Image Compression in Biomedical High-Throughput Screening Using Artificial Neural Networks
Biomedical High-Throughput Screening (HTS) requires specific properties of image compression. Particularly especially when archiving a huge number of...
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10 A Safety Strategy for Rehabilitation Robots
It was reported previously that many MANUS users thought that the MANUS was useful, but not useful enough to gain totally independent lifestyles for...
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14 Processes for Obtaining a “Manus” (ARM) Robot within the Netherlands
This chapter describes both the current (Anno Domini 2003) and future processes of prescribing the Assistive Robotic Manipulator (ARM, also known as...