Recently, Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a popular software service mode. Context-awareness and customizability are important and desirable properties for providing the same application for different customers. Most of existing approaches tackle application customization by explicitly specifying some form of variation points where parts of the application remain unspecified or are defa...

Spurred by the expansion of world trade and the increasing number of disputes involving documentary credits – a global market now estimated at a staggering US$500 billion in letters of credit outstanding – the International Chamber of Commerce’s (“ICC”) is currently developing rules for the resolution of disputes arising from letters of credit issued under the Uniform Customs and Practices for ...

A wide range of AI applications should manage time varying information, for example, temporal databases, reservation systems, keeping medical records, financial applications, planning. Many published research articles in the area of temporal representation and reasoning assume that temporal data is precise and certain, even though in reality this assumption is often false. In many situations th...

The patented[3] Email Channels technology[1, 2], invented and originally developed by me during the latter half of the 1990s at AT&T Laboratories Research and currently being commercialized by ZoEmail LLC[4], allows a user effectively to have many variants of a common “base” address, with each variant to be used by a different set of correspondents. The variants, also known as channels or chann...

Multi-person pose estimation methods generally follow top-down and bottom-up paradigms, both of which can be considered as two-stage approaches thus leading to the high computation cost low efficiency. Towards a compact efficient pipeline for multi-person task, in this paper, we propose represent human parts points present novel body representation, leverages an adaptive point set including cen...

1. Abstract The optimization of graft and anastomotic configurations with regard to blood dynamics is the major target of this study. A developed multi-objective genetic algorithm is considered in order to reach optimal graft geometries for idealized arterial bypass systems of fully occluded host arteries. An artificial neural network simulating hemodynamic specific conditions is introduced in ...

The possibility of hydroxylamine electrochemical determination over a CoO(OH)-modified electrode, accompanied by complex-formation, has been studied from the theoretical point of view. The correspondent mathematical model has been developed and analyzed by means of linear stability theory and bifurcation analysis. It was shown that CoO(OH) may be applied as an efficient electrode modifier i...

In this paper, we investigate the existence of free involutions on some Wall manifolds and compute mod 2 cohomology algebra correspondent orbit space.