Log Skeletons: A Classification Approach to Process Discovery

To test the effectiveness of process discovery algorithms, a Process Discovery Contest (PDC) has been set up. This PDC uses a classification approach to measure this effectiveness: The better the discovered model can classify whether or not a new trace conforms to the event log, the better the discovery algorithm is supposed to be. Unfortunately, even the state-of-the-art fully-automated discovery algorithms score poorly on this classification. Even the best of these algorithms, the Inductive Miner, scored only 147 correct classified traces out of 200 traces on the PDC of 2017. This paper introduces the rule-based log skeleton model, which is closely related to the Declare constraint model, together with a way to classify traces using this model. This classification using log skeletons is shown to score better on the PDC of 2017 than state-of-the-art discovery algorithms: 194 out of 200. As a result, one can argue that the fully-automated algorithm to construct (or: discover) a log skeleton from an event log outperforms existing state-of-the-art fully-automated discovery algorithms.Comment: 16 pages with 9 figures, followed by an appendix of 14 pages with 17 figure

Venture capital as human resource management

Part of the way venture capitalists add value to portfolio firms is by obtaining and transferring information about senior managers across firms over time. Information transfer occurs on a significant scale and takes place both among a single venture capitalists portfolio firms and between different venture capitalists firms via a network of venture capitalists, which venture capitalists use to locate and relocate managers. We collect and analyze survey data on the operation of this human resource network. Theoretical and empirical analyses indicate that cross-sectional differences among portfolio firms are associated with differences in the intensity with which venture capitalists network. The observable factors relevant in explaining the intensity with which venture capitalists network include: 1) the value of the information transmitted though the network, 2) the riskiness of the activities of the portfolio firms, 3) the size of the venture capital fund, 4) the degree of difficulty in enticing executives to manage portfolio firms, and 5) the reputation of the venture capitalist for successfully recycling managers. We show that each of these factors reflects the costs and benefits to venture capitalists of participating in the network.

Absence of Gluonic Components in Axial and Tensor Mesons

A quarkonium-gluonium mixing scheme previously developed to describe the characteristic of the pseudoscalar mesons is applied to axial and tensor mesons. The parameters of the model are determined by fitting the eigenvalues of a mass matrix. The corresponding eigenvectors give the proportion of light quarks, strange quarks and glueball in each meson. However the predictions of the model for branching ratios and electromagnetic decays are incompatible with the experimental results. These results suggest the absence of gluonic components in the states of axial and tensor isosinglet mesons analyzed here.Comment: 12 page

Venture Capital as Human Resource Management

Venture capitalists add value to portfolio firms by obtaining and transferring information about senior managers across firms over time. Information transfer occurs on a significant scale and takes place both among a single venture capitalist%u2019s portfolio firms and between different venture capitalists%u2019 firms via a network of venture capitalists, which venture capitalists use to locate and relocate managers. Cross-sectional differences are associated with differences in the intensity with which venture capitalists network. The observable factors relevant in explaining the intensity with which venture capitalists network include: 1) the value of the information transmitted through the network, 2) the riskiness of the activities of portfolio firms, 3) the size of the venture capital fund, 4) the degree of difficulty in enticing executives to manage portfolio firms, and 5) the reputation of the venture capitalist for successfully recycling managers. These factors reflect costs and benefits to venture capitalists of participating in the network.

Experimental Reexamination of Transverse Tensile Strength for IM7/8552 Tape-Laminate Composites

Due to the observed dependence of transverse-tensile strength, YT, on test geometry and specimen size, there is no consensus regarding a test method that can uniquely measure YT. This study reexamines characterization of YT by comparing results from established flexure tests with results from a new tensile test that exhibits consistent failure in the gage region. Additionally, the effects of surface preparation and direction of transverse fracture are investigated. Results show that YT is inversely proportional to specimen volume and surface roughness, and is insensitive to direction of transverse fracture. The relationship between specimen volume and YT is adequately captured by Weibull strength-scaling theory, except at the tails of the YT distributions. However, specimens exhibited microcracking prior to failure, which violates the weak-link assumptions of the Weibull theory. These findings highlight the challenges of using deterministic YT values in progressive damage analysis

Comportamento de cultivares de milho no Estado de Sergipe: II ensaios de rendimento, 1986 e 1987.

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Retenção foliar e produtividade da mandioca em Sergipe.

Perda de folhas e a consequente redução na produtividade de raízes de mandioca são sintomas comuns da severa deficiência hídrica e podridão radicular. Com base nisso, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo determinar as cultivares de mandioca que têm maior retenção foliar e produtividade nas condições edafoclimáticas dos Tabuleiros Costeiros e do Agreste de Sergipe. Com esse fim foram instalados três ensaios, em condição de sequeiro, no delineamento de blocos ao acaso, com 11 cultivares. O número de folhas, a altura total (m), área da copa (m²), teor relativo de clorofila, taxa de assimilação de CO2, massa fresca da parte aérea (t ha-1), comprimento radicular (cm), massa seca radicular (%), produtividade de raízes (t·ha-1), teor de amido (%) e produtividade de amido foram as variáveis determinadas. Na condição de déficit hídrico severo e prolongado, verificada no verão de 2012, maior número de folhas e área de copa foram determinados nas plantas da cultivar BRS Jarina, e menor número na cultivar Lagoão. O clone 9783-13, que à semelhança das cultivares Lagoão e Irará, teve perda precoce de folhas e de plantas devido à podridão radicular em 2012, no ano agrícola 2013-2014, na ausência de podridão, apresentou altaretenção foliar. Esses dados sugerem o impacto da podridão radicular nessas plantas. Por outro lado, em condição de déficit hídrico menos severo, no ano agrícola 2013-2014, verificou-se, com o início do período úmido, aumento na produção de folhas nas plantas da maioria das cultivares, à excessão de BRS Jarina, BRS Tapioqueira, BRS Caipira e Preta do Sul, o que sugere efeito indutor do estresse hídrico ameno anterior sobre o crescimento. Conclui-se que as plantas das cultivares BRS Jarina e Irará e o clone 9783-13 destacam-se pela retenção foliar em condições de deficiência hídrica prolongada; as plantas da cultivar BRS Kiriris, seguidas pelas plantas de BRS Jarina, são aquelas com maior retenção foliar nas áreas infestadas com podridão radicular; as cultivares BRS Kiriris, Irará, Tianguá, Lagoão, BRS Verdinha, BRS Caipira, BRS Poti branca, BRS Jarina, BRS Tapioqueira, Preta do sul e o clone 9783-13 têm produtividade acima de 40 t·ha-1 nas condições de Umbaúba-SE, na ausência de podridão radicular; as plantas das cultivares BRS Jarina e BRS Caipira destacam-se pela rapidez de recuperação no número de folhas e no teor relativo de clorofila após início das chuvas e aumento da disponibilidade de umidade no solo.bitstream/item/142456/1/BP93.pd