We consider collusion in path procurement auctions, where payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show that collusion can increase the utility of the agents, and in som...
Group technology (GT) is a useful way to increase productivity with high quality in cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs), in which cell formation (CF) is a key step in the GT phil...
Abstract. We explore the effects of time lapse on iris biometrics using a data set of images with four years time lapse between the earliest and most recent images of an iris (13 s...
The paper describes a new approach using a Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to extract physical and logical layouts in unconstrained handwritten letters such as those sent by indi...
This paper has investigated the issue of virtual wealth and its realization in both real and virtual worlds, and argued that the realization of virtual wealth is necessary and pos...