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Membership Functions for Spatial Proximity
Formalising nearness has been the subject of extensive work, resulting in many membership functions based on absolute distance metrics, relative distance metrics, and combinations of those. The possible strengths and weaknesses of these functions have been discussed and argued at length, but strangely enough, no experiment seems to have been conducted to assess the merits and shortcomings of competing approaches. Conducting such experiments can be expected not only to provide an objective evaluation of the various measures that have been proposed, but also to suggest new measures that outperform all those being analysed. This paper fulfills these expectations, and gives further evidence that fuzzy logic provides fruitful and powerful methods to formalise qualitative reasoning and capture fundamental qualitative notions. The proposed fuzzy membership functions can be directly used in qualitative reasoning about spatial proximity in Geographic Information Systems, which are becoming more and more important in software development for diverse purposes such as Tourist Information Systems or property development
Topological Properties in Ontology-based Applications
Proceedings of: 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Córdoba, Spain, 22 – 24 November, 2011.Representation and reasoning with spatial properties is essential in several application domains where ontologies
are being successfully applied; e.g., Information Fusion systems. This requires a full characterization of the semantics of relations such as adjacent, included, overlapping, etc. Nevertheless, ontologies
are not expressive enough to directly support widely-use spatial or topological theories, such as the Region Connection Calculus (RCC). In addition, these properties must be properly instantiated in the ontology, which may require expensive calculations. This paper presents a practical approach to represent
and reason with topological properties in ontology-based systems, as well as some optimization techniques that have been applied in a video-based Information Fusion application.This work was supported in part by Projects CICYT TIN2008-06742-C02-02/TSI, CICYT TEC2008-06732-C02-02/TEC,CAM CONTEXTS (S2009/ TIC-1485) and DPS2008-07029-C02-02.Publicad
Spin-orbit coupling as a source of long-range triplet proximity effect in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures
We investigate the proximity effect in diffusive superconducting hybrid
structures with a spin-orbit (SO) coupling. Our study is focused on the
singlet-triplet conversion and the generation of long-range superconducting
correlations in ferromagnetic elements. We derive the quasiclassical equations
for the Green's functions including the SO coupling terms in form of a
background SU(2) field. With the help of these equations, we first present a
complete analogy between the spin diffusion process in normal metals and the
generation of the triplet components of the condensate in a diffusive
superconducting structure in the presence of SO coupling. From this analogy it
turns out naturally that the SO coupling is an additional source of the
long-range triplet component (LRTC) besides the magnetic inhomogeneities
studied in the past. We demonstrate an explicit connection between an
inhomogeneous exchange field and SO coupling mechanisms for the generation of
the LRTC and establish the conditions for the appearance of the LRTC in
different geometries. We also consider a S/F bilayer in contact with normal
metal with SO coupling and show that the latter can be used as a source for the
LRTC. Our work gives a global description of the singlet-triplet conversion in
hybrids structures in terms of generic spin-fields and our results are
particularly important for the understanding of the physics underlying
spintronics devices with superconductor elements
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