We analyze a primal-dual pair of problems generated via a duality theory introduced by Svaiter. We propose a general algorithm and study its convergence properties. The focus is a general primal-dual principle for strong convergence of some classes of algorithms. In particular, we give a different viewpoint for the weak-to-strong principle of Bauschke and Combettes and unify many results concer...

In the task of visual object categorization, semantic context can play the very important role of reducing ambiguity in objects' visual appearance. However, the majority of newly proposed object recognition models -whether generative or discriminative – only consider the intrinsic object features. In this work we introduce a novel approach to object categorization that incorporates two types of...

By DIANA GOLDENBERG Election Board will use the campaign rules as a guide, not as binding reo -slrictions, for the remainder 01 the stu· 'dent campaign , lhe Election Board chairman announced Friday. David Miller, A2, Wilmette, Ill" made lhe announcement in response to I statement by Robert Beller, A2, Glencoe, ilL , a presidential candidate, and his vice presidential running mate, Larr, Wood. ...

Discussions about the underrepresentation of women in science are challenged by uncertainty over the relative effects of the lack of assertiveness by women and the lack of recognition of them by male colleagues because the two are often indistinguishable. They can be distinguished at professional meetings, however, by comparing symposia, which are largely by invitation, and posters and other ta...

Much progress has been made in recent years in the area of information retrieval, in particular as embodied in Internet search engine technology. Much progress has also been made in probabilistic, graph-theoretic AI. What are the possibilities for bringing these two lines of research together — for viewing large-scale information retrieval as a core enabling technology for AI systems, and for a...

s of Invited Talks Giorgio Buttazzo, Avi Efrati, John Hooker, Claude Le Pape and

The controversial attempt to scrap the 24-year-old international moratorium on commercial whaling collapsed last month, to the delight of many anti-whaling campaigners and to the frustration of Japan, Norway and Iceland, the three countries which continue to hunt whales in defiance of world opinion. Delegates from the 88 member states of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Aga...

A Runge–Kutta method takes small time steps, to approximate the solution to an initial value problem. How accurate is this approximation? If the error is asymptotically proportional to hp, where h is the stepsize, the Runge–Kutta method is said to have “order” p. To find p, write the exact solution, after a single time-step, as a Taylor series, and compare with the Taylor series for the approxi...