Existing algorithms for the Generation of Referring Expressions (GRE) aim at generating descriptions that allow a hearer to identify its intended referent uniquely; the length of the expression is also considered, usually as a secondary issue. We explore the possibility of making the trade-off between these two factors more explicit, via a general cost function which scores these two aspects se...

The best-known developments of a regular tetrahedron are an equilateral triangle and a parallelogram. Are there any other convex developments of a regular tetrahedron? In this paper we will show that there are convex developments of a regular tetrahedron having the following shapes: an equilateral triangle, an isosceles triangle, a right-angled triangle, scalene triangles, rectangles, parallelo...

Background: Infertility is one of the important components of reproductive Health that has some effects on physical and psychological aspects of couple's life. Infertile women are concerned about their sexual and physical health. It is even possible that using and evaluation of assisted reproductive techniques have negative effects on women feelings about the sexual value and marital relat...

We present new abelian partial difference sets and amorphic group schemes of both Latin square type and negative Latin square type in certain abelian p-groups. Our method is to construct what we call pseudo-quadratic bent functions and use them in place of quadratic forms. We also discuss a connection between strongly regular bent functions and amorphic group schemes.

In this note we prove that bent functions can be precisely characterized in terms of a special class of strongly regular graphs, thus providing a positive answer to a question raised in the paper Spectral Analysis of Boolean Functions as a Graph Eigenvalue Problem. (After publication of the above paper by the rst two authors, the third sent them a remark showing that bent functions are exactly ...

in recent years, many changes have been observed in buying culture of customers and developing chain stores in iran. moreover, need to be more competition in business environments made necessary the stablishment of chain stores, the creation of competitive advantage and long relations to the costumers. regular marketing is a response to stores requirement when establishing such a win-win long r...

In this paper we study the relationships existing between total measurability in variation and Gould type fuzzy integrability (introduced and studied in [21]), giving a special interest on their behaviour on atoms and on finite unions of disjoint atoms. We also establish that any continuous real valued function defined on a compact metric space is totally measurable in the variation of a regula...

the rational cubic function with three parameters has been extended to rational bi-cubic function to visualize the shape of regular convex surface data. the rational bi-cubic function involves six parameters in each rectangular patch. data dependent constraints are derived on four of these parameters to visualize the shape of convex surface data while other two are free to refine the shape of s...