Although spatial analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become prevalent in the social and policy sciences, GIS and its mapmaking capability remains an underutilized tool among the decision support tools available to policy makers. Using a case study of Medicaid expenditure changes in Ohio, the authors demonstrate how spatial analysis and display can incorporate useful weights f...

the main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. therefore, railway track desig...

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The stability and sensitivity of joint diagonalization criteria are analyzed using the Hessian of the criteria at their critical points. The sensitivity of some known joint diagonalization criteria is shown to be weak when they are applied to the matrices with closely placed eigenvalues. In such a situation, a large deviation in the diagonalizer cause a slight change in the criterion which make...

Today in many applications the study of human movement using a computer vision and graphics techniques is very useful. One of these applications is the three-dimensional reconstruction of the structure of the human body and its movement using sequences of images and biomechanical graphics models. In this paper we present a whole and general system to study the human motion without markers but, ...

In this report we analyze different model selection criteria that were used in statistics, reconstruction, recognition and other areas. We concentrate on criteria based on Bayesian theory, MDL theory, and predicting future residuals. Our analysis showed that these criteria often are not consistent when the number of points in the underlying data of the model is changed or if the scale of the da...

This is a summary of the author’s PhD thesis, defended on 8 October 2007 at the University of Luxembourg and the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, under the joint supervision of Raymond Bisdorff and Marc Pirlot. The thesis is written in English and is available from the author upon request. The work is situated in the field of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). It mostly deals with what w...

In th epast decade, increasing interest in equity issues resulted in new methodologies in the area of operations research. This paper deals with the concept of equitably efficient solutions to multiple criteria optimization problems. Multiple criteria optimization usually starts with an assumption that the criteria are incomparable. However, many applications arise from situations which present...

This paper proposes a multi-criteria based approach for the analysis of building layouts, from space quality and cost related perspectives. A computational prototype is developed to analyse a building layout from various accessibility related measures in order to evaluate the quality of the building special layout. A case study is used to demonstrate the assessment of a building layout based on...

We combine a prior incomplete deadlock-freedom-checking approach with two new reachability techniques to create a more precise deadlock-freedom-checking framework for concurrent systems. The reachability techniques that we propose are based on the analysis of individual components of the system; we use static analysis to summarise the behaviour that might lead components to this system state, a...