Abstract: One problem faced in knowledge engineering for Bayesian networks (BNs) is the exponential growth of the number of parameters in their conditional probability tables (CPTs). The most common ...

Abstract: For reliability assessments of power distribution systems it has been customary to represent the failure and repair processes of the components by exponential models. A problem with this ...

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This article is concerned with the set-membership state estimation problem for power distribution networks (PDNs) over a resource-constrained communication network under the influence of unknown but ...

SINGAPORE - The exponential rise in national healthcare spending cannot be allowed to cripple Singapore's future, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung as he laid out the steps being taken to rein in costs ...

Mesopelagic fish, being in the middle of the trophic web, are important key species for the marine environment; yet limited knowledge exists about their biology and abundance. This is particularly ...

Entropy is an uncertainty measure of random variables which mathematically represents the prospective quantity of the information. In this paper, we mainly focus on the estimation for the parameters ...