We extend some topologies on the space of upper semicontinuous functions with compact support to those on that of general upper semicontinuous functions and see that graphical topology and modified L topology are the same. We then define random upper semicontinuous functions using their topological Borel field and finally give a Choquet theorem for random upper semicontinuous functions.

Several classes of hereditarily normal spaces are characterized in terms of extending upper semi-continuous compact-valued mappings. The case of controlled extensions is considered as well. Applications are obtained for real-valued semi-continuous functions.

If U and V are topologies on an abstract set X, then the triple (X, U, V) is a bitopological space. Using the theorem of Priestley on the representation of distributive lattices, results of Dilworth concerning the normal completion of the lattice of bounded, continuous, realvalued functions on a topological space are extended to include the lattice of bounded, semi-continuous, real-valued funct...

Assume that X is a metrizable separable space, and each clopen-valued lower semicontinuous multivalued map Φ : X ⇒ Q has a continuous selection φ : X → Q. Our main result is that in this case, X is a σ-space. We also derive a partial converse implication, and present a reformulation of the Scheepers Conjecture in the language of continuous selections.

Traditional approaches such as Gaussian mixture model (GMM), Otsu’s and moment preserving (MP) methods are developed for segmentation of opaque objects. For semi-opaque objects like flame and smoke the result is cluttered, due to inappropriate threshold, especially if one dominates the other. Besides, rapidly changing environments like foggy and rainy scenes increase the difficulty in foregroun...

The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is one of the most commonly used methods to compare the diagnostic performances of two or more laboratory or diagnostic tests. In this thesis, we propose semi-empirical likelihood based confidence intervals for ROC curves of two populations, where one population is parametric while the other one is non-parametric and both populations have missin...

In this paper, we establish sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions of equilibrium problems in a metric space, that do not involve any convexity assumption either for the domain or for the function. To prove these results, a weak notion of semicontinuity is considered. Furthermore, some existence results for systems of equilibrium problems are provided.

A number of semicontinuity concepts and the relations between them are discussed. Characterizations are given for when the (set-valued) metric projection P M onto a proximinal subspace M of a normed linear space X is approximate lower semicontinuous or 2-lower semicontinuous. A geometric characterization is given of those normed linear spaces X such that the metric projection onto every one-dim...

Flesch et al [3] showed that, if the payoff functions are bounded and lower semicontinuous, then such a game always has a pure, subgame perfect -equilibrium for > 0. Here we prove the same result for bounded, upper semicontinuous payoffs. Moreover, Example 3 in Solan and Vieille [7] shows that if one player has a lower semicontinuous payoff and another player has an upper semicontinuous payoff,...