This paper presents an innovative way to combine edge detection and linking using the wavelet representation and image fusion. We describe how to detect and link edges in connection to horizontal and vertical orientations selectivity of the human visual system. We develop a framework with three stages: decomposition, recomposition, and fusion. In recomposition stage, we reconstruct both horizon...

This paper focuses on the innovative visual analytics approach realized by the Visual Analytics Tool for Experimental Evaluation (VATE2) system, which eases and makes more effective the experimental evaluation process by introducing the what-if analysis. The what-if analysis is aimed at estimating the possible effects of a modification to an Information Retrieval (IR) system, in order to select...

This article introduces a multiagent simulation framework for investigating the emergence of niche markets for environmentally innovative products. It clarifies how consumer preferences, business strategy, and government policy interact during market development. The framework allows investigation of the effects of uncertainty and agents’ corresponding coping strategies. We describe the model, ...

SMARTMUSEUM (Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange Platform) is a Research and Development project sponsored under the Europeans Commission’s 7th Framework. The overall objective of the project is to develop a platform for innovative services enhancing on-site personalized access to digital cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling. Using onsite knowledge databases...

This is the third paper in a series that heralds a study that examines paramedic accounts and constructs of judgment and decision-making (JDM) of mental health and mental illness. This paper will overview an innovative theoretical framework for conducting a discourse-historical case study of paramedic judgment and decision-making of mental health and mental illness using ethnographic and ethnom...

Before launching a new beef brand concept based on high sustainability and environmental production principles, the Brazilian market was tested using survey informed by Intentions’ Framework scales. To identify determinants of willingness to consume pay for Carbon-Neutral 1,000 valid responses were evaluated, Exploratory Factor Analysis. A Hierarchical Cluster Analysis identified five classes r...