Parsing of sentences based on Dependency Grammar is emulated with a constraintand unification-based mechanism that preserves single-headedness and projectivity in syntactic dependency. Working on Chinese, and referring to English at times, the authors have treated subcategorization properties of verbs on the assumptions that relative positions of obligatory complements of a verb are fixed, and ...

This study describes a new method developed to determine the 3D positional displacements of the drainage networks extracted from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). The proposed method establishes several stages for data preparation. The displacements are derived by means of linestring-based assessment methods, which can be applied in 2D and 3D. Also, we propose the use of several tools (maps, agg...

Chikungunya fever (CHIKV), a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, is currently affecting several territories in the Caribbean. The vector is found in the Americas from South Florida to Brazil and the Caribbean is a highly connected region. There is therefore a significant risk for the epidemic to quickly expand to a wide area in the Americas, and of introduction to Europe where competent ve...

Workload placement on servers has been traditionally driven by mainly performance objectives. In this work, we investigate the design, implementation, and evaluation of a power-aware application placement controller in the context of an environment with heterogeneous virtualized server clusters. The placement component of the application management middleware takes into account the power and mi...

We present some modifications of the Hoede-Bakker index defined in a social network in which players may influence each other. Due to influences of the other actors, the final decision of a player may be different from his original inclination. The modifications presented in the paper are defined for an arbitrary probability distribution over all inclination vectors. In particular, they concern...

This paper models the sea port system with the objective of determining the optimal storage strategy and container-handling schedule. It presents an iterative search algorithm that integrates a container transfer model with a container location model in a cyclic fashion to determine both optimal locations and corresponding handling schedule. A genetic algorithm, a tabu search and a tabu search/...

Labeling of eukaryotic cells with radioactive nutrients is a popular method in the detection of biomacromolecules. Less popular and much ignored is the radioactive contamination of cell-culture equipment that usually accompanies this activity. The reason for this contamination is the production of radioactive vapors or gases, either by spontaneous chemical decomposition or through metabolic con...

Some years ago Koutras presented a method of constructing a conformal Killing tensor from a pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors. When the vector associated with the conformal Killing tensor is a gradient, a Killing tensor (in general irreducible) can then be constructed. In this paper it is shown that the severe restriction of orthogonality is unnecessary and thus it is possible that m...

An efficient disparity estimation algorithm for multi-view video sequences, recorded by a two-dimensional camera array in which the cameras are spaced equidistantly, is presented. Because of the strong geometrical relationship among views, the disparity vectors of a certain view can for most blocks be derived from the disparity vectors of other views. A frame constructed using that idea is call...

8 Vectors and Quaternions 145 8.1 Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 8.2 Displacement Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 8.3 The Parallelogram Law of Vector Addition . . . . . . . . . . . 146 8.4 The Length of Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 8.5 Scalar Multiples of Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....