We study the concept of bribery in the situation where voters are willing to change their votes as we ask them, but where their prices depend on the nature of the change we request. Our model is an extension of the one of Faliszewski et al. [FHH06], where each voter has a single price for any change we may ask for. We show polynomial-time algorithms for our version of bribery for a broad range ...

This paper proposes a rapid and automatic measurement system to acquire a 3D shape of a human body. A flexible calibration method was developed to decrease the complexity in system calibration. To reduce the computation cost, a GPU-Steger line detector was proposed to more rapidly detect the center of the laser pattern and at subpixel level. The processing time of line detection is significantl...

In a model of the cerebellar granular layer, pairs of neurons aligned along the parallel "ber axis "red synchronized over long distances provided the a!erent mossy "bers were spatially uniformly excited. Here, we applied a nonuniform mossy "ber input pattern and found that local patches of increased granule cell activity were sharpened by the feedback inhibition which granule cells received fro...

In this correspondence, we discuss periodic nonuniform sampling as described by Yen. Such a sampling scheme is more sensitive to additive white noise than uniform sampling. We give here an explicit formula for the noise amplification of periodic nonuniform sampling compared with uniform sampling.

In this work, we direct our attention to the study of effect a nonuniform and strong magnetic field on quantum properties ions in plasma. We have assumed that is sum two fields: one, most intense, has toroidal geometry, whereas other less intensity (about third first) poloidal. Regarding properties, focused obtaining corresponding eigenenergy n hydrogen-like ion field. Using obtained eigenenerg...

We pres ent a new "knowledge-based nonuniform crossover" opera tor for genet ic algorit hms that generalizes uniform crossover. We ext end this to "Dynamic knowledge-based nonuniform crossover ," which const antly updates the knowledge ext racted t hus far from the environment 's feedb ack on previously generated chromosomes. Knowledge-based nonu niform crossover can improve on good solutions p...