Because of their multi-sided and dynamic nature, the application of competition law to online platforms may prove challenging. The paper maintains that existing competition concepts are flexible enough to be adequately applied to search engines and social networks. It is argued that, in order to take the fast-moving nature of these industries into account, relevant markets should not be defined...

In this paper the forward problem of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is considered. To achieve a flexible treatment of boundaries, the original two-dimensional domain is extended to a simple square one and essential boundary conditions are imposed by means of Lagrange multipliers, resulting in a saddle point system. For discretisation, we employ a biorthogonal B-Spline wavelet basis for w...

Access control in Smart Spaces requires flexible, dynamic and powerful management approaches. Policy based management has the potential to empower users and administrators in this domain. Rigid organisational models with pre-determined policy rules limits the possibilities for users’ interactions with the space and between each other. This paper outlines a community based policy management appr...

In this paper, the drawing process of multi-layer sheet metal through wedge shaped die has been analyzed using stream function and upper bound method. Typically a sandwich sheet contains three layers of metal, where the outer layers are of the same thickness and material and different from those of the inner layer. In this study, a new deformation model has been introduced in which inlet and ou...

H∞ controller for active magnetic bearings (AMBs) with flexible rotor system was designed in this paper. The motion equations of AMBs and flexible rotor system are built based on finite element methods (FEM). Weighting function matrices of H∞ controller for AMBs are studied for both the sensitivity and the complementary sensitivity of H∞ control theory. The simulation shows that the H∞ control ...

In this paper, we present an improved region-based active contour/surface model for 2D/3D brain MR image segmentation. Our model combines the advantages of both local and global intensity information, which enable the model to cope with intensity inhomogeneity. We define an energy functional with a local intensity fitting term and an auxiliary global intensity fitting term. In the associated cu...

In this paper, we consider the problem of predicting demographics of geographic units given geotagged Tweets that are composed within these units. Traditional survey methods that offer demographics estimates are usually limited in terms of geographic resolution, geographic boundaries, and time intervals. Thus, it would be highly useful to develop computational methods that can complement tradit...

In this paper, we present an immersed boundary (IB) method to simulate a dry foam, i.e., a foam in which most of the volume is attributed to its gas phase. Dry foam dynamics involves the interaction between a gas and a collection of thin liquidfilm internal boundaries that partition the gas into discrete cells or bubbles. The liquid film boundaries are flexible, contract under the influence of ...

Point Distribution Models (PDMs) are statistically derived flexible templates which are trained on sets of examples of the object(s) to be modelled. They require that each example is represented by a set of points (landmaiks) and that each landmark represents the same location on each of the examples. Generating the landmarks from 2D boundaries or 3D surfaces has previously been a manual proces...

In this paper, a two-dimensional phase field crystal model of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is extended to include out-of-plane deformations in stacked multilayer systems. As proof principle, the shown analytically reduce standard models flexible sheets small deformation limit. Applications strained sheets, dislocation dipoles, grain boundaries are used validate behavior single lay...