Identifying the writer of a handwritten document has remained an interesting pattern classification problem for document examiners, forensic experts, and paleographers. While mature identification systems have been developed for handwriting in contemporary documents, the problem remains challenging from the viewpoint of historical manuscripts. Design and development of expert systems that can identify the writer of a questioned manuscript or retrieve samples belonging to a given writer can greatly help the paleographers in their practices. In this context, the current study exploits the textural information in handwriting to characterize writer from historical documents. More specifically, we employ oBIF(oriented Basic Image Features) and hinge features and introduce a novel moment-based matching method to compare the feature vectors extracted from writing samples. Classification is based on minimization of a similarity criterion using the proposed moment distance. A comprehensive series of experiments using the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2017 historical writer identification dataset reported promising results and validated the ideas put forward in this study.
This paper presents a mathematically enhanced genetic algorithm (MEGA) using the mathematical properties of the single-machine scheduling of multiple jobs with a common due date. The objective of the problem is to minimize the sum of earliness and tardiness penalty costs in order to encourage the completion time of each job as close as possible to the common due date. The importance of the problem is derived from its NP-hardness and its ideal modeling of just-in-time concept. This philosophy becomes very significant in modern manufacturing and service systems, where policy makers emphasize that a job should be completed as close as possible to its due date. That is to avoid inventory costs and loss of customer’s goodwill. Five mathematical properties are identified and integrated into a genetic algorithm search process to avoid premature convergence, reduce computational effort, and produce high-quality solutions. The computational results demonstrate the significant impact of the introduced properties on the efficiency and effectiveness of MEGA and its competitiveness to state-of-the-art approaches.
This paper is related to the simulation, in Matlab environment, of a robot manipulator controlled by both type-1 and interval type-2 fuzzy controllers, in which a modification in Karnik-Mendel algorithm has been proposed. To calculate the output of interval type-2 fuzzy system there is a main step called type-reduced; this operation is based on Karnik-Mendel algorithm, which uses arithmetic mean to calculate the control output. In this work, we propose to change the arithmetic mean by harmonic one. The performances of modified interval type-2 controller and type-1 fuzzy controller with and without noises are compared in terms of integral of squared error. The proposed modification in type reduction of Karnik-Mendel algorithm for interval type-2 fuzzy set shows best performance. Indeed, the amount of error in case of modified interval type-2 fuzzy controller is less two times than type-1 fuzzy controller.
The nucleic acid and protein sequences contain different types of information (genes, RNA structural, active sites, regulatory structure ...), these information can lead to discover many useful knowledge on biology like the functionality of a given protein sequence, another example is toclassifying proteins on different families based on these information. In this paper we focus on the existed motif in the nucleic acid sequences. Before going further it is useful to review the concepts and terminology associated with this study.The motif is a structural short element that could be found in all members of a family of protein. It contains essential residues for function conserved, not necessarily consecutive, but rather closes to the 3D structure, be-cause they involve the same function (active site, binding site ...). While the pattern or profile is a degenerate sequence and/or composed of different motif that can be separated by variable regions.In fact, the objective is to develop a new algorithm based on mining tree structure in order to highlight segments of DNA, RNA, or amino acids, which are likely to have a biological role
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