This paper investigates the foundations of granular computing, which is a paradigm oriented towards capturing and processing meaningful pieces of information, the so-called information granules. Each level of granulation induces a higher complexity in the semantic structure of the universe of...

The development of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, has a significant effect on the automation of business processes related to the automotive industry, directly impacting employees skills and work tasks. The objectives of the study are: to identify the state of current...

Purpose of this paper is the description of the tecniques used to generate pseudo-random numbers, to be added as disturbance terms to the stochastic structural equations of econometric models. These disturbance terms should have the same statistical properties as the residuals obtained, in each...

This note describes ParallelKnoppix, a bootable CD that allows creationof a Linux cluster in very little time.An experienced user can create a cluster ready to execute MPI programsin less than 10 minutes.The computers used may be heterogeneous machines, of the IA-32 architecture.When the cluster...

PelicanHPC is a rapid (around 5 minutes, when you know what you're doing) means of setting up a high performance computing (HPC) cluster for parallel computing using MPI. This tutorial gives a basic description of what PelicanHPC does,  addresses how to use the released CD images to set up a...

This note shows how to set up a Linux cluster for MPI parallel processing using ParallelKnoppix, a bootable CD.

In this paper we present a real-life application of a fuzzy expert system aimed at rating and ranking firms. Unlike standard DCF models, it integrates financial, strategic and business determinants and processes both quantitative and qualitative variables. Twenty-one value drivers are defined,...

Because of the fact that specialty agricultural assistance is not always available when the farmers need it, we identified expert systems as a strong instrument with an extended potential in agriculture. This started to grow in scale recently, including all socially-economic activity fields,...

The recent unprecedented growth of telecom facilities has offered the Internet users in most Asian countries a flavour of broadband. Yet, despite rosy promises by telcos, the user experience has often been less than ideal. These challenges can only be overcome by right policy decisions based on...

In recent decades, all studies have shown that information, based on modern information technologies, have gained particular importance is seen as a strategic resource necessary for the development of the resource, which is sometimes considered more important than raw materials or energy. The...