Most studies on Japanese supplier-automaker relationships have focused on the nature of
the dyadic inter-firm relationship and the performance of the assembler. We examine the
relationship between a Japanese supplier's "customer scope strategy" (i.e. number of
customers) and the supplier's…

In plasma etching process it is critical to know when the film being etched has cleared to the underlying film, i.e. to detect endpoint, in order to achieve the desired device performance in the resulting integrated circuit. The most highly…

El desarrollo de sistemas de diálogo prácticos, orientados a aplicaciones específicas,
requiere un esfuerzo de diseño muy elevado. La práctica en el desarrollo, manejo y refinamiento
de sistemas concretos nos ha hecho ver que una de las razones de este…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

Este trabajo de investigación presenta un análisis lingüístico hecho a partir de la Semiótica
de las pasiones. El corpus escogido corresponde a la epístola Romanos B (Romanos 1, 1-
15) del apóstol San Pablo, simulacro epistolar de contenido cristiano moralizante.…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

We describe an adaptation of the knowledge gradient, originally developed for discrete ranking and selection problems, to the problem of calibrating continuous parameters for the purpose of tuning a simulator. The knowledge gradient for continuous parameters uses a continuous approximation…

Ce mémoire se veut être un alliage de connaissances historiques théoriques et de leur mise en application dans un contexte académique de niveau collégial. L’objet principal est de comparer l’historiographie savante, écrite par des historiens chercheurs, au contenu de quatre…

Information Retrieval Systems normally deal with keywordbased technologies. Although those systems reach satisfactory results, they aren’t able to answer more complex queries done by users, especially those directly in natural language. To do that, there are the KnowledgeBased Systems, which…

In the restricted single-machine common due date problem the goal is to find a schedule for the n jobs which jointly minimizes the sum of earliness and tardiness penalties, while for the weighted tardiness problem the goal is to find…