Introduction to “Re-Mapping Cosmopolitanism”

Political Cosmopolitanism

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An Introduction to String Re-Writing Kernel

Learning for sentence re-writing is a fundamental task in natural language processing and information retrieval. In this paper, we propose a new class of kernel functions, referred to as string rewriting kernel, to address the problem. A string re-writing kernel measures the similarity between two pairs of strings. It can capture the lexical and structural similarity between sentence pairs with...

A Brief Introduction to Mapping Class Groups

An Introduction to the Log-Polar Mapping

One interesting feature of the human visual system is the topological transformation of the retinal image into its cortical projection. The excitation of the cortex can be approximated by a log-polar mapping of the eye’s retinal image. In this tutorial paper we describe the log-polar mapping and its main properties.

An Introduction to the Space Mapping Technique

The space mapping technique is intended for optimization of engineering models which involve very expensive function evaluations. It is assumed that two different models of the same physical system are available: Besides the expensive model of primary interest (denoted the fine model), access to a cheaper (coarse) model is assumed which may be less accurate. The main idea of the space mapping t...