Recent work on the location of perinatal facilities in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro resulted in the development of an uncapacitated, three-level hierarchical model. An impor...
The paper uses a case example to present a novel way of building enterprise information systems. The objective is to bring forth the benefits of an item centric systems design in ...
Markov random field (MRF) theory provides a basis for modeling contextual constraints in visual processing and interpretation. It enables us to develop optimal vision algorithms sy...
Recently, the bag-of-words approach has been successfully applied to automatic image annotation, object recognition, etc. The method needs to first quantize an image using the vis...
Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. This research develops an economic model for comparing search...