Increasing market demands concerning customer requirements and market pressure from competitors force several enterprises to diversify their product range. Offering more and more product variants has the implicit impact of growing development process complexity. Although many configuration problems can be solved with knowledge-based configuration, the usage of configuration tools is very often ...

This article illustrates how tools exploiting the knowledge of protein three-dimensional structure can be used to identify homologues of known structure, generate sequencestructure alignments and assist model building. The tools described here include HOMSTRAD, a database of structure-based alignments for protein families of known structure, JOY, a program to annotate local environments in stru...

background: pan-igg specific monoclonal antibodies (mabs) are essential tools for assessment of humoral immunity, immune deficiency and gammopathy. in this study, four hybridoma clones producing mabs with different specificities for human igg isotypes were established. methods: splenocytes from balb/c mice immunized with fc fractions of human igg were fused with sp2/0 myeloma cells. hybridoma c...

We present our study of the face recognition problem. Due to difference in human pose, face expression, hairstyle, image style and lighting conditions, the problem is very difficult. To solve it we have to test different image processing tools and heuristics for robust recognition. The main features of our approach are detection of fiducial points, calculation of geometric features and applicat...

Face recognition is an important tool for improving security, with many possible applications. It is however a difficult task in uncontrolled environments, where results can be dramatically reduced compared to controlled conditions. This article presents face recognition in a realistic setup, a complete processing chain from face detection to actual recognition, with additional tools that are n...

This paper presents a method for named entity recognition and disambiguation based on Wikipedia. First, we establish Wikipedia database using open source tools named JWPL. Second, we extract the definition term from the first sentence of Wikipedia page and use it as external knowledge in named entity recognition. Finally, we achieve named entity disambiguation using Wikipedia disambiguation pag...

Intention-based decision making Intention recognition is ubiquitous in most social interactions among Humans and other primates. However, the role of intention recognition in the emergence of cooperative actions remains elusive. Using the tools of evolutionary game theory, here we address, for the first time, the role played by intention recognition in the final outcome of cooperation in large ...

This papers examines the issues in recognizing the Devanagari characters in the wild like sign boards, advertisements, logos, shop names, notices, address posts etc. While some works deal with the issues in recognizing the machine printed and the handwritten Devanagari characters, it is not clear if such techniques can be directly applied to the Devanagari characters captured in the wild. Moreo...

A combination of information retrieval (RI) tools and structural recognition (SR) tools are used for the automatic construction of a generic model of documents. The automatic construction takes as input a structured database of the documents which is converted into SGML, giving a logical representation of their content. the RS tools are applied to the postscript representation of the documents ...