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Anthony C. Copeland Mohan M. Trivedi University of California, San Diego Computer Vision and Robotics Research (CVRR) Laboratory Electrical and Computer Engineering Department La Jolla, California 92093-0407 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. We present an experimental framework for evaluating metrics for the search and discrimination of a natural texture pat...

insurance companies are important economic institutions in each country and support other economic institutions and good performance of them has an effective role in economic boom. insurance companies to achieve strong and effective performance must be aware of the environment, the competitor and their performance and carry out necessary actions with regard to this information. in this study, t...

This paper sets out a theory of how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale, technique and composition effects and then examine this theory using data on sulfur dioxide concentrations from the Global Environment Monitoring Project. We find international trade creates relatively smal...

To increase the Internet's reliability and to have greater control over traffic transmission, reliable path selection is important and Multipath routing is promising technique that are used in the communication networks. Finding reliable end-end paths and backup can increase network performance. So, using proper decision metrics and algorithm should be used to paths and backup selection phase i...

In maritime transportation system (MTS), ports and ocean routes are essential for establishing maintaining effective international trade routes. However, the ability of to send receive goods can be easily destroyed by political natural interferences. This will cause a significant negative socio-economic impact such as port operation suspension route disruption. Effectively implementing resilien...