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In this separation, there are 4 distillation tasks (NT-4), producing 3 main product states MP= D1, D2, Bf) and 2 off-cut states OP= Rl, R2 from a feed mixture EF= FO. There are a total of 9 possible outer decision variables. Of these, the key component purities of the main-cuts and of the final bottom product are set to the values given by Nad and Spiegel (1987). Additional specification of the recovery of component 1 in Task 2 results in a total of 5 decision variables to be optimised in the outer level optimisation problem. The detailed dynamic model (Type IV-CMH) of Mujtaba and Macchietto (1993) was used here with non-ideal thermodynamics described by the Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK) equation of state. Two time intervals for the reflux ratio in Tasks 1 and 3 and 1 interval for Tasks 2 and 4 are used. This gives a total of 12 (6 reflux levels and 6 switching times) inner loop optimisation variables to be optimised. The input data, problem specifications and cost coefficients are given in Table 7.1. 

As we have mentioned, the particular characterization task considered in this work is to determine attenuation in composite materials. At our hand we have a data acquisition system that can provide us with data from both PE and TT testing. The approach is to treat the attenuation problem as a multivariable regression problem where our target values, y , are the measured attenuation values (at different locations n) and where our input data are the (preprocessed) PE data vectors, u . The problem is to find a function iy = /(ii ), such that i), za jy, based on measured data, the so called training data. 

To set up the problem for a microcomputer or Mathcad, one need only enter the input matrix with a 1.0 as each element of the 0th or leftmost column. Suitable modifications must be made in matrix and vector dimensions to accommodate matrices larger in one dimension than the X matrix of input data (3-56), and output vectors must be modified to contain one more minimization parameter than before, the intercept otq. 

Neural networks have the following advantages (/) once trained, their response to input data is extremely fast (2) they are tolerant of noisy and incomplete input data (J) they do not require knowledge engineering and can be built direcdy from example data (4) they do not require either domain models or models of problem solving and (5) they can store large amounts of information implicitly. 

Numeric-to-symbohc transformations are used in pattern-recognition problems where the network is used to classify input data vectors into specific labeled classes. Pattern recognition problems include data interpretation, feature identification, and diagnosis. 

The accuracy of QRA results is also dependent on the analysis resources. Obviously, more complete QRA models can produce more accurate results. But even the best model is worthless if the input data are speculative or erroneous. Fortunately, the scarcity of process-specific data for some applications may not be an insurmountable problem. There exist a few industrywide databases, such as those in Table 2, that... 

Some programs require only a few days to completely program for general purpose use, while some others require several montlis of continuous effort. Whenever more than one individual is expected to use the computer program, it is good practice to obtain the several tiews on attacking the problem, i.e., qqje of input data, solution approach, range of variables, fixed conditions and type and form of output or results. 

Generally speaking, the outcome of any digital computation is a set of numbers in machine representation. Often the problem as originally formulated mathematically is to obtain a function defined over some domain, but the computation itself can give only (approximations to) a finite number of its functional values, or a finite number of coefficients in an expansion, or some other form of finite representation. At any rate, each number y in the finite set of numbers explicitly sought can be thought of, or perhaps even explicitly represented as, some function of the input data x ... 

Inverse problems are very common in experimental and observational sciences. Typically, they are encountered when a large number of parameters (as many as or more than measurements) are to be retrieved from measured data assuming a model of the data - also called the direct model. Such problems are ill-conditioned in the sense that a simple inversion of the direct model applied directly to the data yields a solution which exhibits significant, or even dominant, features which are completely different for a small change of the input data (for instance due to a different realization of the noise). Since the objective constraints set by the data alone are not sufficient to provide a unique and... 

The last inequality implies that the solution of the difference problem (2) continuously depends on the input data. In such cases we say that a difference scheme is stable with respect to the input data. 

The preceding examples provide enough reason to conclude that the concept of stability with respect to the input data is identical with the concept of continuous dependence of the solution of a difference problem upon... 

The property of the continuous dependence of the solution for a difference problem on the input data is expressed by inequality (18) and is treated as the stability of the scheme with respect to the input data or simply stability (see Section 4.2)... 

As a matter of fact, we will consider the set of solutions ykri )] of Cauchy problem (4) dependent on the input data 2/o/> -... 

Inequality (12) expresses the property of continuous dependence which is uniform in h and t of the Cauchy problem (4) upon the input data. Here and below the meaning of this property is stability. A difference scheme is said to be absolutely stable if it is stable for any r and h (not only for all sufficiently small ones). It is fairly common to distinguish the notion of stability with respect to the initial data and that with respect to the right-hand side. Scheme (4) is said to be stable with respect to the initial data if a solution to the homogeneous equation... 

The question of the accuracy of the scheme, being of principal importance in the theory, amounts to studying the error of approximation and stability of the scheme. Stability analysis neces.sitates imposing a priori estimates for the difference problem solution in light of available input data. This is a problem in itself and needs investigation. 

The Laplace inversion (LI) is the key mathematical tool of the DDIF experiment. The ability to convert the measured multi-exponential decay into a distribution of decay times is crucial to the DDIF pore size distribution application. However, unlike other mathematical operations, the Laplace inversion is an ill-conditioned problem in that its solution is not unique, and is fairly sensitive to the noise in the input data. In this light, significant research effort has been devoted to optimizing the transform and understanding its boundaries [17, 53, 54],... 

The primary purpose of pattern recognition is to determine class membership for a set of numeric input data. The performance of any given approach is ultimately driven by how well an appropriate discriminant can be defined to resolve the numeric data into a label of interest. Because of both the importance of the problem and its many challenges, significant research has been applied to this area, resulting in a large number of techniques and approaches. With this publication, we seek to provide a common framework to discuss the application of these approaches. 

Several significant challenges exist in applying data analysis and interpretation techniques to industrial situations. These challenges include (1) the scale (amount of input data) and scope (number of interpretations) of the problem, (2) the scarcity of abnormal situation exemplars, (3) uncertainty in process measurements, (4) uncertainty in process discriminants, and (5) the dynamic nature of process conditions. 

Furthermore, the pattern structures in a representation space formed from raw input data are not necessarily linearly separable. A central issue, then, is feature extraction to transform the representation of observable features into some new representation in which the pattern classes are linearly separable. Since many practical problems are not linearly separable (Minsky and Papert, 1969), use of linear discriminant methods is especially dependent on feature extraction. 

With the view that a KBS interpreter is a method for mapping from input data in the form of intermediate symbolic state descriptions to labels of interest, four families of approaches are described here, each offering inference mechanisms and related knowledge representations that can be used to solve interpretation problems namely, model-based approaches, digraphs, fault trees, and tables. These methods have been heavily used... 

Because of their ability to classify complex data types that have no explicit mathematical model, neural networks have become a powerful and widely used approach to pattern recognition problems in general. A neural network is a series of mathematical operations performed on input data that ultimately... 

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