This paper presents a fast top-down visual attention method to downsize the search space of template matching. Such a method first generates patterns representing the local structures, and then calculates the pattern distributions representing the template and its surroundings. From here two separate operations are performed: the "pattern weight" is first introduced, which describes how well a ...

Adaptation behaviour and different scales of reference can bias self-assessments of well-being by individuals. In this paper, we analyse the impact of these biases on a subjective measure of the quality of health and on the QALY weights derived from this health measure. It is found that the scale of reference of the subjective health measure changes with age. Accounting for adaptation and scale...

The multilayer perceptron (MLP) is a well established neural network model for supervised learning problems. Furthermore, it is well known that its performance for a given problem depends crucially on appropriately selecting the MLP architecture, which is typically achieved using cross-validation. In this work, we propose an incremental Bayesian methodology to address the important problem of a...

This paper proposes a method for ranking decision making units (DMUs) using some of the multiple criteria decision making / multiple attribute decision making          (MCDM /MADM) techniques, namely, interval analytic hierarchy process (IAHP)          and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS).          Since the efficiency score of unity is assigned to ...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a method to evaluate the relative efficiency of decision making units (dmus). in this method, the issue has always been to determine a set of weights for each dmu which often caused many problems. since the dea models also have the multi-objective linear programming (molp) problems nature, a rational relationship can be established between molp and dea problem...

A method is proposed for detecting the emotions of Chinese song lyrics based on an affective lexicon. The lexicon is composed of words translated from ANEW and words selected by other means. For each lyric sentence, emotion units, each based on an emotion word in the lexicon, are found out, and the influences of modifiers and tenses on emotion units are taken into consideration. The emotion of ...