The synergistic interaction between teammates in association football has properties that can be captured by Social Network Analysis (SNA). The analysis of networks formed by team players passing a ball in a match shows that team success is correlated with high network density and clustering coefficient, as well as with reduced network centralization. However, oversimplification needs to be avo...

In the field of sports games the analysis of the game structure as well as the analysis of the opponent team is of major interest for the training process in order to optimize tactical skills. Based on methodological problems of present game analysis some recent approaches apply artificial neural networks to examine the game structure. With the intention to analyze types of tactical structures ...

Adaptation in multimedia systems is usually restricted to defensive, reactive media adaptation (often called stream-level adaptation). We argue that offensive, proactive, system-level adaptation deserves not less attention. If a distributed multimedia system cares for overall, end-to-end quality of service then it should provide a meaningful combination of both. We introduce an adaptive multime...

literary fiction can be criticized and analyzed through different approaches and literary schools. meanwhile, the most attention has been devoted to realism, as the most important and permanent intellectual concern of many writers. iranian modern literary fiction has shown its affection to realism from the beginning, and most of iranian writers have tried to illustrate the social-political situ...

Let G = (V (G), E(G)) be a graph, and let k ≥ 1 be an integer. A set S ⊆ V (G) is called a global offensive k-alliance if |N(v) ∩ S| ≥ |N(v)−S|+k for every v ∈ V (G)−S, where N(v) is the neighborhood of v. The global offensive k-alliance number γ o (G) is the minimum cardinality of a global offensive k-alliance in G. We present different bounds on γ o (G) in terms of order, maximum degree, inde...

purpose the aim of this study was to investigat the offensive efficiency of the professional handball players forming the front and rear lines. methods our investigation was carried out on four matches (final, semi-finals and classifying match) at the 19th male handball world championship “tunisia 2005”. finalist teams were tunisia, france, croatia, and spain. matches were recorded using 5 digi...