Cerinţele pietei şi presiunile din cadrul social necesită sisteme de fabricaţie eficiente care să ţină pasul cu tendinţele mereu crescânde din domeniu. De aici rezultă necesitatea dezvoltării unor sisteme noi de control al fabricaţiei care să poată face faţă schimbărilor şi perturbaţiilor din producţie într-un mod eficient. În acest sens, în ultimul deceniu au fost făcute numeroase cercetări şi...

We present an estimation-theoretic approach to curve evolution for the Mumford-Shah problem. By viewing an active contour as the set of discontinuities in the Mumford-Shah problem, we may use the corresponding functional to determine gradient descent evolution equations to deform the active contour. In each gradient descent step, we solve a corresponding optimal estimation problem, connecting t...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has one of the poorest prognoses of all malignancy types. To improve the survival of patients with PDAC, the development of novel anticancer agents is warranted. Riproximin (Rpx) is a newly identified plant lectin, which was isolated from Ximenia americana. The ribosome inactivating protein of type II exhibits potent anticancer activity as recently demons...

The behaviour of multiple stock markets can be described within the framework of complex dynamic systems (CDS). A representative technique of the framework is the dynamic interaction network (DIN), recently developed in the bioinformatics domain (Chan et al., 2006). DINs are capable of modelling dynamic interactions between genes and predicting their future expressions. In this paper, we adopt ...

În acest articol prezentăm câteva metode şi tehnici noi, foarte practice, pentru calculul unor valori agregate în structuri şi baze de date multidimensionale. De asemenea, considerăm şi problema determinării eficiente a celei de-a k-a valori minime din mulţimi definite prin diverse constrângeri. A treia contribuţie a articolului este reprezentată de câteva extensii şi aplicaţii ale unor problem...

The aim of this paper is to provide a formal link between an oscillatory neural model, whose phase is represented by a difference equation, and the Mumford and Shah functional. A Riemannian metric is induced by the pattern of neural connections, and in this setting the difference equation is studied. Its Euler–Lagrange operator Γ-converges as the dimension of the grid tends to 0 to the Mumford ...

In a recent paper, Soni and Shah [Soni, H., Shah, N. H., 2008. Optimal ordering policy for stock-dependent demand under progressive payment scheme. European Journal of Operational Research 184, 91-100] developed a model to find the optimal ordering policy for a retailer with stock-dependent demand and a supplier that offers a progressive payment scheme to the retailer. This note corrects some e...