This paper describes the architecture for a collaborative Car Pooling System based on a credits mechanism to motivate the cooperation among users. Users can spend the accumulated credits on parking facilities. For this, we propose a business model to support the collaboration between a car pooling system and parking facilities. The Portuguese Lisbon’s Metropolitan area is used as application sc...

As a generalization of d-disjunct matrices and (w, r;d)-cover-freefamilies, the notion of (s, l)-disjunct matrices is introduced for error-correcting pooling designs over complexes (or set pooling designs). We show that (w, r, d)cover-free-families form a class of (s, l)-disjunct matrices. Moreover, a decoding algorithm for pooling designs based on (s, l)-disjunct matrices is considered.

Inspired by the Hardy–Littlewood maximal function, we propose a novel pooling strategy which is called maxfun pooling. It presented both as viable alternative to some of most popular functions, such max and average pooling, way interpolating between these two algorithms. We demonstrate features with applications: first in context convolutional sparse coding, then for image classification.

The study of gene functions requires a DNA library of high quality, such a library is obtained from a large mount of testing and screening. Pooling design is a very helpful tool for reducing the number of tests for DNA library screening. In this paper, we present new one- and two-stage pooling designs, together with new probabilistic pooling designs. The approach in this paper works for both er...