Causality is one of the most fundamental notions of physics. It is therefore important to be able to decide which statements about causality are correct in different models of space-time. In this paper, we analyze the computational complexity of the corresponding decision problems. In particular, we show that: • for Minkowski space-time, the decision problem is as difficult as Tarski’s decision...

This paper invokes the axiomatic approach to explore the notion of growing awareness in the context of decision making under uncertainty. It introduces a new approach to modeling the expanding universe of a decision maker in the wake of becoming aware of new consequences, new acts, and new links between acts and consequences. The expanding universe, or state space, is accompanied by extension o...

We consider the application of distributed space-time coding in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In particular, sensors use a common noncoherent distributed space-time block code (DSTBC) to forward their local decisions to the fusion center (FC) which makes the final decision. We show that the performance of distributed space-time coding is negatively affected by erroneous sensor decisions caus...

in seismic exploration studies different types of techniques are used to recognize seismic features in terms of their temporal and spatial spectra. variations in frequency content are sensitive to subtle changes in reflection information (castro de matos et al., 2003). in this study the joint time-frequency analysis is used for seismic texture recognition. discrete wavelet transform (dwt) witho...

In this paper, we elaborate how decision space diversity can be integrated into indicator-based multiobjective search. We introduce DIOP, the diversity integrating multiobjective optimizer, which concurrently optimizes two set-based diversity measures, one in decision space and the other in objective space. We introduce a possibility to improve the diversity of a solution set, where the minimum...

A new color space, YCgCr, is described and applied for face detection. Although similar to the YCbCr color space, it differs in the use of the Cg color component instead of the Cb one. Here, the fundamentals of this new color space YCgCr are presented and its capabilities and advantages over YCbCr are analyzed. After describing the face extraction technique and the required decision values, the...

Managing limited display areas is an increasingly challenging task in the grocery retail industry, especially given the current high levels of product proliferation. The decision of how to best allocate and manage shelf space is critical to grocery retail profitability. Moreover, this decision is escalated for initial shelf space considerations at new grocery stores. Without loss to generality,...