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ACTA IMEKO 
ISSN: 2221‐870X 
December 2015, Volume 4, Number 4, 2 

 

ACTA IMEKO | www.imeko.org  December 2015 | Volume 4 | Number 4 | 2 

Introduction to the Special Section of the IMEKO TC21 
“Mathematical Tools in Measurements” 

Franco Pavese  

Torino, Italy  

 

Section: EDITORIAL  

Citation: Franco Pavese, Introduction to the Special Section of the IMEKO TC21 “Mathematical Tools in Measurements”, Acta IMEKO, vol. 4, no. 4, article 1, 
December 2015, identifier: IMEKO‐ACTA‐04 (2015)‐04‐01 

Section Editor: Franco Pavese, Torino, Italy 

Received December 10, 2015; In final form December 10, 2015; Published December 2015 

Copyright: © 2015 IMEKO. This is an open‐access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits 
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Corresponding author: Franco Pavese, email: frpavese@gmail.com  

 
 

This Special Section of the IMEKO TC21 “Mathematical 
Tools in Measurements” is formed by a selection of extended 
papers that was submitted following the presentations made at 
the International Conference “Advanced Mathematical and 
Computational Tools in Metrology and Testing” (AMCTM) 
held in September 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia, with an 
important attendance from Russia.  

For this reason, this Section comprises three Russian papers 
out of seven. The paper of Mazin proposes the presentation of 
a physical quantity by a vector of the pseudo-Euclidean plane 
including the quantity value and its degree of uncertainty. The 
paper of Kurekova et al. discusses the positioning uncertainty 
of kinematic structures, namely of the Tricept. The paper of 
Kislitsyna and Malykhina deals with the modelling of an 
altimeter designed for soft landing on the moon, based on 
gamma rays scattering. 

The remaining four papers well represent the worldwide 
attendance to the Conference. The paper of Barari and Ahmadi,  

 
from Canada, concerns coordinate metrology and introduces a 
novel approach to predict surface behaviour via Distribution of 
Geometric Deviations (DGD) to estimate the detailed deviation 
zone. The paper of Gonzalez, Estrada and Lira, from Mexico, 
discusses the modeling of a combustion chamber of a reference 
calorimeter used to measure the Superior Calorific Value (SCV) 
of natural gas. The paper of Willink, from New Zealand, 
discusses the important issue of the evaluation of the Type A 
component of uncertainty when the sample size is not 
predetermined, considering both the frequentist and the 
Bayesian methods. The paper by Pavese, from Italy, starting 
from a statistics of the results of Key Comparisons (KC) 
available on the BIPM KCDB, discusses the consequences of 
the results obtained, of a dominant situation where an inter-
comparison contains discrepant data, proposing an alternative 
method to the simple prior correction for the known systematic 
effects.