Margin maximizing properties play an important role in the analysis of classi£cation models, such as boosting and support vector machines. Margin maximization is theoretically interesting because it facilitates generalization error analysis, and practically interesting because it presents a clear geometric interpretation of the models being built. We formulate and prove a suf£cient condition fo...

Our presentation aims at theoretically and practically linking deconstructivist feminist positions and applied informatics. Therefore, we pose the question of which gendered conceptions become operative during the software development process and of how thereby gender is inscribed in technological artefacts. By presenting the results of two case studies researching concrete development processe...

SYNOPSIS The antitrypsin activity of human serum was studied as a function ofpH, preincubation of serum with trypsin, and the concentrations of substrate, trypsin, and serum. Maximal activity was observed between pH 8-0 and 8-3. Activity was enhanced by preincubation of serum with trypsin, and reduced by high concentrations of trypsin and substrate. Percentage inhibition was a sigmoid function ...

Graphic medicine is a swiftly growing movement that explores, theoretically and practically, the use of comics in medical education and patient care. At the heart of graphic medicine are graphic pathographies, stories of illness conveyed in comic form. These stories are helpful tools for health care professionals who seek new insight into the personal, lived experience of illness and for patien...

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements, i.e. organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management technologies, electric appliances and equipment, and human behaviour, based on a case study, to simulate the energy consumption in office buildings. With the model, we test the effectiveness of different energy management strategi...

Notwithstanding the pervasiveness of enterprise systems, their selection and implementation is still being perceived as problematic if not risky. Research in the tradition of requirements engineering argues that its insights will ameliorate this condition. Yet, the context of enterprise systems has outmoded requirements engineering methodically and practically. Theoretically, analysis of the pr...

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are randomized search strategies which have turned out to be efficient for optimization problems of quite different kind. In order to understand the behavior of EAs, one also is interested in examples where EAs need exponential time to find an optimal solution. Until now only artificial examples of this kind were known. Here an example with a clear and simple struc...

Most traditional artificial intelligence (AI) systems of the past 50 years are either very limited, or based on heuristics, or both. The new millennium, however, has brought substantial progress in the field of theoretically optimal and practically feasible algorithms for prediction, search, inductive inference based on Occam’s razor, problem solving, decision making, and reinforcement learning...

By introducing a new e-commerce paradigm that of disposable anonymous accounts we are able to reduce storage requirements, while protecting against strong attacks on the system, and keeping computational requirements low. Our proposed scheme reduces storage costs of payers and merchants to the lowest theoretically possible, offers users computational (but not revocable) privacy, and protects ag...

Screening and early diagnosis of gastric cancer play important roles in reducing the mortality of gastric cancer. A vast amount of study data on gastric cancer screening and early diagnosis has been accumulated in and out of China in the past decades. The practice of gastric cancer screening has also been efficiently carried out in different countries and regions. However, no widely accepted pr...