Pruning revisited – effect of pruning season on wood discoloration and occlusion in four temperate broadleaved tree species

Effect of pruning on dendritic tree topology.

The variability in topological shapes of observed neuronal branching patterns can accurately be described by a simple model for random sequential growth. This finding is remarkable in view of the fact that the actual neuritic growth process can vary, and includes phases of regression and removal of branches which were not considered in the model. The aim of the present study is to investigate t...

Automatic Move Pruning Revisited

In this paper we show that the move pruning method we presented at SoCS last year sometimes prunes all the least-cost paths from one state to another. We present two examples exhibiting this erroneous behaviour–a simple, artificial example and a slightly more complex example that arose in last year’s experiments. We then formally prove that a simple modification to our move pruning method makes...

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Connected Operators Based on Region-Tree Pruning

This paper discusses region-based representations useful to create connected operators. The filtering approach involves three steps: first, a region tree representation of the input image is constructed. Second, the simplification is obtained by pruning the tree and third, and output image is constructed from the pruned tree. The paper focuses in particular on several pruning strategies that ca...

Probability-Based Game Tree Pruning

In game-tree search, a point value is customarily used to measure position evaluation. If the uncertainty about the value is to be reflected in the evaluation, which is described with probabilistic distribution or probabilities, the search process must back up distributions from leaf nodes to the root. It is shown that even though the merit value of a node is described by probabilities, α-β bou...