In the classical logic the inferential process is based on the modus ponens rule for which when the rule that connects the premise with the consequence is true and the premise is true, we know that the consequence is also ...

The benefits of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) start to be recognized and implemented across distributed enterprise businesses. As SOAs promise to accomplish more dynamic and collaborative e-business scenarios, ...

This chapter addresses the methodological challenges of developing relevant scientific knowledge for a sustainable energy system transition in an innovative way. We argue that scientific contributions to sustainable ...

E-services involve various types, delivery systems, advanced information technologies, methodologies and applications of online services that are provided by e-government, e-business, e-commerce, e-market, e-finance, ...

This paper represents a new level set method for multiregional image segmentation. It employs the Gabor filter bank to extract local geometrical features and builds the pixel tensor representation whose dimensionality is ...

In computer vision applications, Active Appearance Models (AAMs) is usually used to model the shape and the gray-level appearance of an object of interest using statistical methods, such as PCA. However, intensity values ...

The conventional histogram intersection (HI) algorithm computes the intersected section of the corresponding color histograms in order to measure the matching rate between two color images. Since this algorithm is ...

Subspace selection is a powerful tool in data mining. An important subspace method is the Fisherâ¿¿Rao linear discriminant analysis (LDA), which has been successfully applied in many fields such as biometrics, bioinformatics, ...

In this paper, we study the generalization bound for an empirical process of samples independently drawn from an infinitely divisible (ID) distribution, which is termed as the ID empirical process. In particular, based on ...