Night Train to Lisbon

Improved Search for Night Train Connections

The search for attractive night train connections is fundamentally different from ordinary search: the primary objective of a costumer of a night train is to have a reasonably long sleeping period without interruptions due to train changes. For most passenger it is also undesired to reach the final destination too early in the morning. These objectives are in sharp contrast to standard informat...

From Lisbon to the World...

To train or not to train.

R ecently there’s been a push among some of our clients to start bringing 3d imaging systems in-house. In the majority of cases the client wants my company to provide some form of training to help them get off on the right foot. Although we are in the consulting business, training is a different animal. We’ve worked for years, continuously refining our processes and tools, investing in R&D and ...

LAST EXIT TO LISBON bruegel policybrief

tised and a new system of governance. Of the three key changes advocated in the Kok report, only National Reform Programmes (NRPs) drawn up by the member states made it off the drawing board. The proposals to provide appropriate EU funding to support the Lisbon goals, and “name and shame” poor performing member states were rejected. The driving force of Lisbon 2 is thus national “ownership” of ...

The Combining Classifier: To Train or Not to Train?

When more than a single classifier has been trained for the same recognition problem the question arises how this set of classifiers may be combined into a final decision rule. Several fixed combining rules are used that depend on the output values of the base classifiers only. They are almost always suboptimal. Usually, however, training sets are available. They may be used to calibrate the ba...