Cases of Note-Copyright-Substantial Similarity

Substantial Similarity and Psychological Similarity: Perfect Strangers

Questions of similarity and dissimilarity are central to both the study and practice of intellectual property law. Trademark law’s basic consideration in determinations of infringement is consumer confusion. Similarity of marks is a basic measure of the likelihood of confusion and the concept of confusion itself – the misidentification of one object with another – is, in some ways, a very basic...

Similarity Assessment and Retrieval of Generalized Cases

This paper addresses the similarity assessment and the retrieval problems in Case-Based Reasoning for case bases consisting of traditional and generalized cases. Previous work focussed on similarity assessment for generalized cases with continuous domains. The similarity assessment problem was formulated as Nonlinear Programm (NLP), which is well known in mathematical optimization. In several r...

Mulla Sadra’s Theory of Substantial Motion[1]

Mohammad Javad Rezaei* Mahdi Dasht Bozorgi**  One of the most important philosophical theories of Mulla Sadra is substantial motion, which has greatly influenced other philosophical discussions. In this article, first we refer to the historical background of the theory before Mulla Sadra, namely in Peripatetic Philosophy, and then deal with Mulla Sadra’s innovations, such as ...

Note on Two Cases of Cerebral Hæmorrhage

A customizable similarity measure between histological cases

IDEM, a computerized environment dedicated to pathologists, includes a Case Based Reasoning (CBR) procedure to retrieve similar histological cases in the database. The relevancy of a retrieved case strongly depends on the similarity measure comparing case descriptions. The present work deals with the definition of a similarity measure in the context of IDEM. In a first step, a theoretical measu...