Information, stored in databases, is a key competitive advantage of many companies. However, this importance does not imply that managers will view data as a strategic resource or...
An important research topic in image processing is stereo vision. The objective is to compute a 3-dimensional representation of some scenery from two 2-dimensional digital images....
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 recent development of Sequential Monte Carlo methods (also called particle filters) has enabled the definition of efficient algorithms for tracking applications in image sequen...
Evaluation of spoken dialogue systems has been traditionally carried out in terms of instrumentally or expert-derived measures (usually called ``objective" evaluation) and qu...