Pindara revisited – evolution and generic limits in Helvellaceae

Term Limits Revisited

Generic Active Appearance Models Revisited

The proposed Active Orientation Models (AOMs) are generative models of facial shape and appearance. Their main differences with the well-known paradigm of Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are (i) they use a different statistical model of appearance, (ii) they are accompanied by a robust algorithm for model fitting and parameter estimation and (iii) and, most importantly, they generalize well to ...

Can We? Administrative Limits Revisited

Th e idea of administrative limits—in the sense of constraints or bounds on what can be achieved by the activity of administration in general and public administration in particular—is important for a proper understanding of twenty-fi rst-century public administration. What are the eff ective limits of taxable capacity in the modern state, as debt-ridden governments seek to reduce debt levels a...

Generic Traces and Constraints, GenTra4CP revisited

The generic trace format GenTra4CP has been defined in 2004 with the goal of becoming a standard trace format for the observation of constraint solvers over finite domains. It has not been used since. This paper defines the concept of generic trace formally, based on simple transformations of traces. It then analyzes, and occasionally corrects, shortcomings of the proposed initial format and sh...

Scenario Reduction Revisited: Fundamental Limits and Guarantees

The goal of scenario reduction is to approximate a given discrete distribution with another discrete distribution that has fewer atoms. We distinguish continuous scenario reduction, where the new atoms may be chosen freely, and discrete scenario reduction, where the new atoms must be chosen from among the existing ones. Using the Wasserstein distance as measure of proximity between distribution...