This paper deals with the problem of estimating an appropriate hand posture to grasp an object, from 2D object’s visual cues in a many-to-many (objects,grasp) configuration. A statistical learning protocol implementing vector-valued regression is adopted for both classifying the most likely grasp type and estimating the hand posture. An extensive experimental evaluation on a publicly available ...

Hungarian paleostomatology as the part of dental anthropology exists since the middle of the last century, together with the paleodontical research in the world. The name paleostomatology comes from a Hungarian scientist, György Huszár. The article has the following chapters: Introduction (what is paleostomatology, and its importance), First studies in the world, Nomenclature, The bases of Hung...

Factorised databases are relational databases that use compact factorised representations at the physical layer to reduce data redundancy and boost query performance. This paper introduces FDB, an in-memory query engine for select-project-join queries on factorised databases. Key components of FDB are novel algorithms for query optimisation and evaluation that exploit the succinctness brought b...

a methodology is presented in this paper to find optimal location and dosage of chlorine injection in water distribution networks. the objective is to minimize the chlorine consumption while keeping the residual chlorine at each node within the standard range. unfortunately because of wrong water quality management in water distribution networks in many parts of the world, many problems such...

We have been studying the techniques for evolutionary robotics and experimenting with various robots applied evolutionary methods. We have paid special attentions to real robots and multi-agent problems with them. In this research domain, we named them as “Ingeniously Behaving Agents (IBA)”. This paper shows several techniques developed in our IBA laboratory and their experimental results appli...

The etiology of malaria is a study of paramount importance to the practitioner of tropical medicine. In different regions, the intensity of the poison may, to some degree, vary ; but in India, from Karachi to Sudia and Sirhind to Cape Comoriu, malaria is the cause of a greater total of sickness than perhaps all other diseases combined. Few of its inhabitants get through twelve months without au...

We show that the full version of the so-called ‘rural hospital theorem’ generalizes to many-to-many matching problems where agents on both sides of the problem have substitutable and weakly separable preferences. We also show that when agents’ preferences satisfy substitutability, the domain of weakly separable pref-

In this note, I extend the work of Echenique (forthcoming) to show that a model of many-to-many matching with contracts may be embedded into a model of many-tomany matching with wage bargaining whenever (1) all agents’ preferences are substitutable and (2) the matching with contracts model is unitary, in the sense that every contractual relationship between a given firm–worker pair is specified...