— Accurate needle insertion in 3D environment is always a grand challenge. When multiple targets are located in the tissue, a procedure of inserting multiple needles from a singl...
Jijie Xu, Vincent Duindam, Ron Alterovitz, Jean Po...
In many practical problems, we must combine ("fuse") data represented in different formats, e.g., statistical, fuzzy, etc. The simpler the data, the easier to combine th...
Mourad Oussalah, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich
In this paper we present a framework for the recognition of collective human activities. A collective activity is defined or reinforced by the existence of coherent behavior of i...
Abstract. We study two-stage robust variants of combinatorial optimization problems like Steiner tree, Steiner forest, and uncapacitated facility location. The robust optimization ...
Rohit Khandekar, Guy Kortsarz, Vahab S. Mirrokni, ...
The finite element method is widely used for solving various problems in geotechnical engineering practice. The input parameters required for the calculations are generally impre...