The task of assessing the market cost an art object (AO) is relevant for artists, dealers, collectors and museum workers, among others. Experts appraisers who need appropriate automation tools are involved in its solution. complicated by inconsistency conceptual apparatus specialists’ various fields knowledge, specifics AO market. Known methods solving it, especially automated methods, not nume...

One of the most important aspects of software project management is the estimation of cost and time required for running information system. Therefore, software managers try to carry estimation based on behavior, properties, and project restrictions. Software cost estimation refers to the process of development requirement prediction of software system. Various kinds of effort estimation patter...

This article presents a novel method for estimating the dense three-dimensional motion of a scene from multiple cameras. Our method employs an interconnected patch model of the scene surfaces. The interconnected nature of the model means that we can incorporate prior knowledge about neighbouring scene motions through the use of a Markov Random Field, whilst the patchbased nature of the model al...

Estimating computational cost is a fundamental issue in time-bounded computation. We present a method for estimating the hardness of optimisation problems (find a minimal cost solution to instance ) by observing that of the corresponding decision problems (has a solution of cost less than threshold ). Provided is not too close to the optimal, decision is typically much easier than optimisation,...

One of the most important issues in all stages of mining study is capital cost estimation. Determination of capital expenditure is a challenging issue for mine designers. In recent decade, quite a few number of studies have focused on proposing estimation models to predict mining capital cost. However, these efforts have not achieved to a predictor model with reliable range of error. Both of ov...

Maintenance can be the factor of either increasing or decreasing system's availability, so it is valuable work to evaluate a maintenance policy from cost and availability point of view, simultaneously and according to decision maker's priorities. This study proposes a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework for a partially observable and stochastically deteriorating syste...