In this paper, we present WOAD, a framework that was inspired and partly validated within a two-year observational case study at a major teaching hospital. We present the WOAD framework by stating its main and motivating rationales, outlining its high-level architecture and then introducing its denotational language, LWOAD. We propose LWOAD to support users of an electronic document system in d...

The problem of optimal space allocation among interconnecting wires of VLSI chips, in order to minimize their switching power consumption is solved. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of optimal space allocation are derived, stating that every wire must be in equilibrium of its line-to-line weighted capacitance density on its two opposite sides. Two proofs are presented, one ...

We consider some particular instances of the segmentation problem. We derive minimum message length (MML) expressions for stating the region boundaries for some one and two dimensional examples. It is the found the message length cost of stating region boundaries is dependent on the noise of the data in the separated regions and also thèdegree of separation' of the two regions. The framework gi...

the islamic civilization in its prosperous and dynamic period has had various social and economic institutions, an outstanding example of which has been the textile industry. a considerable part of this industry has been active under the name of ṭirāz and the related organization, influencing on most aspects of the muslims’ life. besides their major economic impacts on islamic community, ṭirāz ...

We present a general M-estimation framework for inference on the wavelet variance. This framework generalizes the results on the scalewise properties of the standard estimator and extends them to deliver the joint asymptotic properties of the estimated wavelet variance vector. Moreover, this is achieved by extending the estimation of the wavelet variance to multidimensional random fields and by...