The ability to make decisions and to assess po­ tential courses of action is a comer-stone of many AI applications, and usually this requires explicit information about the decision-maker's prefer­ ences. In many applications, preference elic­ itation is a serious bottleneck. The user ei­ ther does not have the time, the knowledge, or the expert support required to specify complex multi-attribu...

Two major degradations, edge displacement and comer erosion, change the appearance of bilevel images. The displacement of an edge determines stroke width, and the erosion ofa comer affects crispness. These degradations are functions of the system parameters: the point spread function (PSF) width and functional form, and the binarization threshold. Changing each of these parameters will affect a...

The primary aim of this paper is to illustrate the value of visualization in cartography and to indicate that tools for the generation and manipulation of realistic images are of limited value within this application. This paper demonstrates the value of visualization within one problem in cartography, namely the generalisation of lines. It reports on the evaluation of the Douglas-Peucker algor...

Proper relation algebras can be constructed using Z/pZ as a base set using a method due to Comer. The cycle structure of such an algebra must, in general, be determined a posteriori, normally with the aid of a computer. In this paper, we give an improved algorithm for checking the cycle structure that reduces the time complexity from O(p) to O(p).

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This paper concerns the estimation of an intertemporal model for labour supply and consumption that recognises the presence of nonworkers and which is cast in a structural optimising framework that allows for uncertainty. Through the utilisation of a micro-data source that measures consumption and labour supply we are able to estimate a flexible preference model which incorporates comer solutio...

Improved Complexity of Area Sequence Moments for Mouse Drawn Shapes Vinay Saxena Department of Mathematics, Kisan P.G. College, Bahraich, U.P. 271801, INDIA ______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: A mouse drawn shape that is represented by a function of sequence of pixels can be completely specified by the locations of its corner pixels g...

Douglas-fir is the most commercially important timber species in the US Pacific Northwest due to its ecological prevalence and its superior wood attributes, especially strength and stiffness properties that make it highly prized for structural applications. Its economic significance has led to extensive establishment and management of plantations over the last few decades. Cultural treatments a...

The Douglas fir terpene alpha-pinene was shown to inhibit the growth of a variety of bacteria and a yeast. Other terpenes of the Douglas fir, including limonene, camphene, and isobornyl acetate, were also inhibitory to Bacillus thuringiensis. All terpenes were inhibitory at concentrations normally present in the fir needle diet of Douglas fir tussock moth larvae. The presence of such terpenes i...