This paper proposes a way to combine the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm, which extends the Generalized Pattern Search (GPS) algorithm, with the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) metaheuristic, for nonsmooth constrained optimization. The resulting algorithm retains the convergence properties of MADS, and allows the far reaching exploration features of VNS to move away from local s...

Multiview geometry is the study of two-dimensional images of threedimensional scenes, a foundational subject in computer vision. We determine a universal Gröbner basis for the multiview ideal of n generic cameras. As the cameras move, the multiview varieties vary in a family of dimension 11n − 15. This family is the distinguished component of a multigraded Hilbert scheme with a unique Borel-fix...

This paper presents a generic framework for novel view synthesis from two uncalibrated reference views that allows to move a virtual camera along a curve that is obtained starting from the epipolar geometry of the reference views. The scene is described by its relative affine structure from which novel views are extrapolated and interpolated. The main contribution of this paper is an automatic ...

Fast introduction of new functionality into the existing telecommunication nodes is very important task for software and system designers. One effective way to do this is to move part of functionality to additional external platform. By creating generic application components and putting them together, new functionality is introduced into the network. In this paper framework for introduction of...

Mobile agents in the Internet environment bring new constraints. In particular, various agent platforms will coexist on the Net. Our generic agent model “GenA” allows agents to run on and move between different agent platforms by using an interface called “GenAi.” Programming these GenA agents is independent of the underlying agent platforms. An implementation of this agent model has been perfo...

Hybrids as various resources have valuable importance in tree breeding. Today, improvement programs by using poplar and willows and their hybrids play basic role in supplying wood and decreasing pressure on natural forests. This research was carried out in order to study inter-generic hybridization possibility between Salix aegyptica and Populus caspica species from Salicaceae to achieve new hy...

In this paper a brief overview of types of instruments is given, with particular emphasis on the expected and experienced effectiveness and efficiency of policy instruments. After introducing the instruments, a brief discourse concerning the difficulties in ex ante and ex post assessment is given. Subsequently, a few experiences in Finland and other countries are presented. In the concluding ob...

The move to relational probabilistic models from propositional models stemmed from the realization that the type of knowledge we have and need in many domains is at a level more generic than that of concrete objects. In reasoning about preference, too, often we have knowledge about the desirable behavior or state of a system of agents/objects, that applies to different instantiations of this sy...

Since 2007, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has supported I-MOVE (influenza monitoring vaccine effectiveness), a network to monitor seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccine effectiveness (IVE) in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA). To set up I-MOVE, we conducted a literature review and a survey on methods used in the EU/EEA to measure IVE and h...

UNLABELLED Generic medicines can generate larger savings to health care budgets when their use is supported by incentives on both the supply-side and the demand-side. Pharmacists''remuneration is one factor influencing the dispensing of generic medicines. OBJECTIVE The aim of this article is to provide an overview of different pharmacist remuneration systems for generic medicines in Europe, w...