this paper reports a survey and case study research outcomes on the application of data envelopment analysis (dea) to the ranking method of european foundation for quality management (efqm) business excellence model in iran’s automotive industry and improving benchmarking process after assessment. following the global trend, the iranian industry leaders have introduced the efqm practice to thei...

Exemplar-based methods have proven their efficiency for the reconstruction of missing parts in a digital image. Texture as well as local geometry are often very well restored. Some applications, however, require the ability to reconstruct non local geometric features, e.g. long edges. We propose in this paper to endow a particular instance of exemplar-based method with a geometric guide. The gu...

The goal of exemplar-based texture synthesis is to generate images that are visually similar a given exemplar. Recently, promising results have been reported by methods relying on convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) pretrained large-scale image datasets. However, these difficulties in synthesizing textures with non-local structures and extending dynamic or sound textures. In this article, ...

This paper presents recent research that provides an overarching model of exemplar theory capable of explaining phenomena across the phonetic and syntactic strata. The model represents a unique exemplar-based account of constituency interactions encompassing both linguistic domains. It yields simulation and experimental results in keeping with experimental findings in the literature on syllable...

The biclustering, co-clustering, or subspace clustering problem involves simultaneously grouping the rows and columns of a data matrix to uncover biclusters or sub-matrices of the data matrix that optimize a desired objective function. In coherent biclustering, the objective function contains a coherence measure of the biclusters. We introduce a novel formulation of the coherent biclustering pr...

In the last ten years or so, exemplar theory has enjoyed much growth in the field of phonetics. More recently, attempts have been made to apply exemplar theory to syntactic phenomena. Thus far, the issue of unifying phonetic and syntactic exemplar-theoretic models has not been addressed. This paper presents a single overarching exemplar-based model of constituent interactions across both lingui...