Many statutory solvency requirements, e.g. the system prescribed by the EU, do not take into account the distribution of the investments. In practice, however, an adequate solvency margin of an insurance company depends strongly on the investment portfolio. This paper describes how the sufficient level of the solvency margin can be estimated. In this, only the margin depending on the company’s ...

To check the stability margins the designers commonly use the graphical method which is very constraining when the verification must be done several times, as for instance when a routine is to be developped. In this paper a practical method is proposed, based on the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov (KYP) lemma. This method avoids the conservatism induced by H∞ analysis and a huge calculation as the one ...

A novel structured light method is described. The projection patterns are automatically adapted to the characteristics of the scene as part of the acquisition process, thus maximizing performance and minimizing the number of projection patterns. Color is used for light plane labeling. This allows to increase the dimension of the code space, hence the noise margins, without increasing the number...

In this paper the problem of complex event detection in the continuous domain (i.e. events with unknown starting and ending locations) is addressed. Existing event detection methods are limited to features that are extracted from the local spatial or spatio-temporal patches from the videos. However, this makes the model vulnerable to the events with similar concepts e.g. “Open drawer” and “Open...

In this paper, we describe our system used in the NEWS 2011 machine transliteration shared task. Our system consists of two main components: simple strategies for generating training examples based on character alignment, and discriminative training based on the Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm. We submitted results for 10 language pairs on standard runs. Our system achieves the best performanc...

| In this paper, we revisit the well-known robustness properties of the linear quadratic regulator (LQR), namely, the guaranteed gain margin of-6 to +1 dB and phase margin of ?60 o to +60 o for single-input systems. We caution that these guaranteed margins need to be carefully interpreted. More speciically, we show via examples that an LQR may have a very small margin with respect to the variat...

The present work describes the automatic recognition of named entities based on language independent and dependent features. Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm is applied for the first time in order to learn named entities for Bengali language.We used openly available annotated corpora with twelve different tagset defined in IJCNLP-08 NERSSEAL shared task and obtained 91.23%, 87.29% and 89.69% pr...

PURPOSE It is well known that the curative resection with an adequate proximal margin length is the most effective treatment in gastric cancer. However, despite surgeon's effort to achieve a sufficient proximal margin length, it is often difficult to obtain a recommended proximal margin length in some cases. Therefore, this study was planned to investigate the impact of the length of proximal m...