Efficient Specialization of Relational Concepts

An algorithm is presented for a common induction problem, the specialization of overty general concepts. A concept is too general when it matches a negative example. The particular case addressed here assumes that concepts are represented as conjunctions of positive literals, that specialization is performed by conjoining literals to the overly general concept, and that the resulting specializations are to be as general as possible. Although the problem is NP-hard, there exists an algorithm, based on manipulation of bit vectors, that has provided good performance in practice.     

Qualitätsmanagement bei der Herstellung von Chemieapparaten aus Sonderwerkstoffen

Quality Management during the Fabrication of Chemical Equipment Made of Special Materials Optimizing a material's resistance to corrosion by the addition of alloying elements up to their solubility limits will make it increasingly difficult to use these frequently unstable alloys for the manufacture of chemical plant. The requirements these materials have to meet in the manufacture of chemical plant in terms of manufacturing technology and quality management, are becoming increasingly stringent. The current situation, for example in the manufacture of domed heads of pressure vessels, forgings, heat exchangers, and filter screens with a high specific surface area as a constituent part of stirred suction filters using advanced metallic materials, is not very satisfactory. Results of fabrication tests necessary for pressure vessel manufacture as well as in-service failures frequently demonstrate insufficient expertise of workshops dealing with high-alloy stainless steels and nickel-based materials. That the in-service failure of compoents clearly leads to considerable costs due to maintenance, delays in supply, and production downtimes. The economic consequences can be substantial. The aim of this paper is to highlight sensitive areas by demonstrating the impact of unintentional and unnoticed fabrication-related changes in welding parameters and to provide information on easily applicable methods of monitoring techniques.     

The effect of silica on the thermal decomposition of sodium sulphate

The effect of NaCl and SiO₂ on the evolution of SO₂ and SO₃ from Na₂SO₄ at 850°C has been studied by mass spectrometry. NaCl lowers the melting point of Na₂SO₄ and increases SO₂ evolution. The evolution of SO₃ appears to result from a chemical reaction between Na₂SO₄ and SiO₂.     

Zur statistik des einbaus einer als regler in polyamid 12 verwendeten aliphatischen dicarbonsäure

As hard blocks in polyether block amides, polyamides are used whose length is intensively regulated by dicarboxylic acids. Since, with regard to melting and crystallization behaviour, this acid constitutes an interfering structural unit in the chain, and in the case of a completely converted product each chain contains one acid molecule, it is essential to know where in the chain incorporation will occur. As opposed to monofunctional chain regulators which always form a chain end, a bifunctional chain regulator can a priori also be randomly incorporated into the inner part of the chain. This leads to a far greater interference than occurs if the chain regulator molecule and the chain end, which acts as an interfering unit in any case, coincide with each other. By means of adipic acid-regulated oligoamides based on lauryl lactam, the incorporation of the chain regulator was examined by NMR spectroscopy and compared with model calculations. This resulted in a close match only if it was presupposed that the incorporation was carried out randomly with the same degree of probability at any point whatsoever between two lauryl lactam structural units or at the chain end. Further calculations illustrate the effects of the incorporation of the chain regulator on the size of the amorphous portion.     

Zur Darstellung des ballistischen Entmagnetisierungsfaktors zylindrischer Stäbe

Übersicht Für den ballistischen Entmagnetisierungsfaktor zylindrischer Stäbe werden mit Hilfe der Entmagnetisierungsfaktoren von Ellipsoiden einfache Beziehungen abgeleitet.Herrn Dr. H. Neumann und Herrn Dr. W. Dannöhl danke ich für freundliche Ratschläge bei der Durchführung der Arbeit.     

Effect of friction,strain hardening,and strain rate hardening on the metal flow in rod extrusion

The metal flow in a rod extrusion is theoretically discussed in relation to a frictional condition, strain hardening and strain rate hardening. An existing rigid plastic FEM-program was modified in order to take a rate sensitivity of a material into consideration through a constitutive equation of the form. An interfatial friction was incorporated by a constant Coulomb-frictional coefficient. When the frictional coefficient is smaller than 0.1, a large effect of the friction does not appear. The larger the n-value is, the stronger the distortion of the grid in a billet becomes even under small frictional resistance. The effect of the m-value is similar qualitatively to that of the n-value. When the rate sensitive material is extruded at very low punch speed under large frictional resistance, the material is strained very irregularly all over the billet at an early stage.     

A Version Space Approach to Learning Context-free Grammars

In principle, the version space approach can be applied to any induction problem. However, in some cases the representation language for generalizations is so powerful that (1) some of the update functions for the version space are not effectively computable, and (2) the version space contains infinitely many generalizations. The class of context-free grammars is a simple representation that exhibits these problems. This paper presents an algorithm that solves both problems for this domain. Given a sequence of strings, the algorithm incrementally constructs a data structure that has nearly all the beneficial properties of a version space. The algorithm is fast enough to solve small induction problems completely, and it serves as a framework for biases that permit the solution of larger problems heuristically. The same basic approach may be applied to representations that include context-free grammars as special cases, such as And-Or graphs, production systems, and Horn clauses.