Rough Sets

Rough Sets
Author: Z. Pawlak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1991-10-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780792314721

To-date computers are supposed to store and exploit knowledge. At least that is one of the aims of research fields such as Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. However, the problem is to understand what knowledge means, to find ways of representing knowledge, and to specify automated machineries that can extract useful information from stored knowledge. Knowledge is something people have in their mind, and which they can express through natural language. Knowl edge is acquired not only from books, but also from observations made during experiments; in other words, from data. Changing data into knowledge is not a straightforward task. A set of data is generally disorganized, contains useless details, although it can be incomplete. Knowledge is just the opposite: organized (e.g. laying bare dependencies, or classifications), but expressed by means of a poorer language, i.e. pervaded by imprecision or even vagueness, and assuming a level of granularity. One may say that knowledge is summarized and organized data - at least the kind of knowledge that computers can store.

Cumulative Book Index

Cumulative Book Index
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Total Pages: 2232
Release: 1990
Genre: American literature
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PC AI.

PC AI.
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1989
Genre: Artificial intelligence
ISBN:

AI Magazine

AI Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1988
Genre: Artificial intelligence
ISBN:

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author:
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1990
Genre: Artificial intelligence
ISBN: 9780897913720

E-maintenance

E-maintenance
Author: Kenneth Holmberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2010-08-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1849962057

E-maintenance is the synthesis of two major trends in today’s society: the growing importance of maintenance as a key technology and the rapid development of information and communication technology. E-maintenance gives the reader an overview of the possibilities offered by new and advanced information and communication technology to achieve efficient maintenance solutions in industry, energy production and transportation, thereby supporting sustainable development in society. Sixteen chapters cover a range of different technologies, such as: new micro sensors, on-line lubrication sensors, smart tags for condition monitoring, wireless communication and smart personal digital assistants. E-maintenance also discusses semantic data-structuring solutions; ontology structured communications; implementation of diagnostics and prognostics; and maintenance decision support by economic optimisation. It includes four industrial cases that are both described and analysed in detail, with an outline of a global application solution. E-maintenance is a useful tool for engineers and technicians who wish to develop e-maintenance in industrial sites. It is also a source of new and stimulating ideas for researchers looking to make the next step towards sustainable development.

Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management

Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management
Author: A. Starr
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1021
Release: 2001-09-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080550789

This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM 2001), held in Manchester, UK, on 4-6 September 2001. COMADEM 2001 builds on the excellent reputation of previous conferences in this series, and is essential for anyone working in the field of condition monitoring and maintenance management.The scope of the conference is truly interdisciplinary. The Proceedings contains papers from six continents, written by experts in industry and academia the world over, bringing together the latest thoughts on topics including: Condition-based maintenance Reliability centred maintenance Asset management Industrial case studies Fault detection and diagnosis Prognostics Non-destructive evaluation Integrated diagnostics Vibration Oil and debris analysis Tribology Thermal techniques Risk assessment Structural health monitoring Sensor technology Advanced signal processing Neural networks Multivariate statistics Data compression and fusion This Proceedings also contains a wealth of industrial case studies, and the latest developments in education, training and certification. For more information on COMADEM's aims and scope, please visit http://www.comadem.com

Engineering Asset Management

Engineering Asset Management
Author: Dimitris Kiritsis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 997
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0857293206

Engineering Asset Management discusses state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fourth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM). It is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering such topics as asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance; asset data warehousing, data mining and fusion; asset performance and level-of-service models; design and life-cycle integrity of physical assets; deterioration and preservation models for assets; education and training in asset management; engineering standards in asset management; fault diagnosis and prognostics; financial analysis methods for physical assets; human dimensions in integrated asset management; information quality management; information systems and knowledge management; intelligent sensors and devices; maintenance strategies in asset management; optimisation decisions in asset management; risk management in asset management; strategic asset management; and sustainability in asset management.