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IndElec: A Software for Analyzing Party Systems and Electoral Systems
2011
IndElec is a software addressed to compute a wide range of indices from electoral data, which are intended to analyze both party systems and electoral systems in political studies. Further, IndElec can calculate such indices from electoral data at several levels of aggregation, even when the acronyms of some political parties change across districts. As the amount of information provided by IndElec may be considerable, this software also aids the user in the analysis of electoral data through three capabilities. First, IndElec automatically elaborates preliminary descriptive statistical reports of computed indices. Second, IndElec saves the computed information into text files in data matri…
Adaptive sparse representation of continuous input for tsetlin machines based on stochastic searching on the line
2021
This paper introduces a novel approach to representing continuous inputs in Tsetlin Machines (TMs). Instead of using one Tsetlin Automaton (TA) for every unique threshold found when Booleanizing continuous input, we employ two Stochastic Searching on the Line (SSL) automata to learn discriminative lower and upper bounds. The two resulting Boolean features are adapted to the rest of the clause by equipping each clause with its own team of SSLs, which update the bounds during the learning process. Two standard TAs finally decide whether to include the resulting features as part of the clause. In this way, only four automata altogether represent one continuous feature (instead of potentially h…
Lexicon. Storie e architettura in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo
2013
Il numero della rivista, nella parte riservata ai saggi, affronta tematiche legate alla interazione del progetto di architettura alla diversa scala, dalla fabbrica alla città: la definizione di una tipologia per gli edifici municipali in Portogallo tra Quattro e Cinquecento, la relazione tra spazio urbano e architetture effimere nella Napoli barocca, i prodromi di un piano regolatore per Messina alle soglie dell'Unità d'Italia. La sezione dedicata ai documenti spazia su tematiche, archi cronologici e contesti geografici ampi: da un disegno inedito di Antonello Gagini a una rara pianta settecentesca di architettura militare maltese, dalla committenza architettonica dei duchi di Maqueda in te…
Dall'Isola delle Femmine alla marina di Partinico: fenomeni insediativi e costruzione del territorio.
2014
Il saggio traccia un breve profilo sulle dinamiche insediative e il processo di strutturazione territoriale che hanno avuto luogo durante l'età moderna, tra Cinque e Settecento, in un lungo tratto del litorale occidentale palermitano, tra Isola delle Femmine e Partinico. Quest'area che sarebbe stata assai ancora più rapidamente e profondamente trasformata nel corso dell'età contemporanea, specialmente nella seconda metà del Novecento, nel passato era sì antropizzata - almeno dall'età islamica - ma poco o per nulla urbanizzata e popolata. Per questa ragione nel corso di tre secoli vi sarebbero stati realizzati numerosi insediamenti urbani, città di nuova fondazione oggi caposaldi dell'intero…
Inventare nuove città. L’area industriale dell’ex-Montedison sul fiume Platani
2018
La costruzione dello stabilimento Montedison sul fiume Platani, realizzato nel 1957-60 per produrre solfato potassico, corrisponde alla fondazione di una vera e propria città industriale con paraboloidi che hanno le dimensioni di cattedrali, imponenti torri di raffreddamento, bacino idrico artificiale, villaggio con residenze, chiesa. Questi grandi spazi abbandonati (dal 1978) sono oggi ancora disponibili all’invenzione di una città possibile improntata sull’etica ambientale e sulla valorizzazione dell’architettura. The construction of the Montedison factory on the river Platani, built in 1957-60 to produce potassium sulfate, corresponds to the foundation of a real industrial city with para…
Limited Resistance Rigid Perfectly Plastic Hinges for Steel Frames
2017
The paper concerns the proposal of a new special device for steel frames that can be utilized as external constraint as well as internal one connecting the structure beam elements. The device is designed as a rigid perfectly plastic hinge characterized by suitably chosen stiffness and resistance. Its constituting material is steel. The elastic stiffness and the limit resistance, treated as independent of each other, are fixed with the aim of satisfying special features required to the structure. The proposed device is thought as a sandwich section with wing thickness appropriately variable. Its dimensions are designed so that it can exhibit the fixed independent stiffness and limit resistan…
CyProF – Insights from a Framework for Designing Cyber-Physical Systems in Production Environments
2016
Abstract There is little experience in integrating cyber-physical systems (CPS) in production environments nowadays. A coordinated framework with reference architecture, methodology and procedural model can support the adaption of CPS by providing a pre-defined structure and guidelines. This paper describes such a framework, named CyProF, for designing CPS-based solutions in production environments. Engineers are supported by this framework in handling the complexity during the design phase. Additionally, this paper explains how the framework was used in a use case to reduce engineering efforts for a CPS-based demonstrator.
Robotics Studies in Europe
2012
This paper describes the organization and teaching methodologies for mechanics and robotics related subjects in the European Erasmus Mundus master programmes EMARO (European master in Advanced Robotics), and VIBOT (master courses in VIsion & roBOTics). The structure of these masters is overviewed, the experience in designing and managing them is outlined and we point out the common effort for a global reach of these programmes and to build a transnational teaching architecture.
Organization of Production Processes through the Multi-Service Method by Performing some Identical Operations of the same Duration and Structure
2013
Organisation of production processes, by means of multi service method refers to the performance of attributions within a working system, using simultaneously or successively more inputs or more items in a single means of production, by one or more employees. In the specifically chosen case, in order to outline the advantages that shall be obtained after implementing the multi service method, we want to illustrate a situation where there are the execution conditions of certain identical operations, with the same duration and structure, in which case the running time of the performer and the means of production will be identical. Serving multiple machines finds application in all industrial …
The integration of information technologies in the knowledge based organizations
2016
Relations between the users' expertise, complexity of tasks to be solved by knowledge-based organizations and mission of smart information systems, is a multi-dimensional structure that should provide the necessary conceptual framework of sustainable integrated smart development. The users of smart information systems face a variety of problems, such as: system access, data recovery, identifying and retrieving a specific document and its contents, and difficulties associated with understanding and interpreting of the used system on stages and methods following to be used, respectively problems on understanding the meaning of information provided. Using smart information systems and smart da…