The Image Understanding Environment (IUE) provides a large, robust, well-documented, C++ hierarchy and tool suite to support Image Understanding research and technology transfer. This paper describes the additions and improvements that have been made to the IUE since its rst public release at IUW'96.

Inverse lithography technology (ILT) treats photomask design for microlithography as an inverse mathematical problem. We show how the inverse lithography problem can be addressed as an obstacle reconstruction problem or an extended nonlinear image restoration problem, and then solved by a level set time-dependent model with finite difference schemes. We present explicit detailed formulation of ...

a Office of Research and Development, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Biobusiness Management, National Chiayi University, 580 Shinmin Road, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC c Institute of Industrial Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China d Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinc...

This paper analyzes the effects of a potential spillover on technology transfer of a multinational enterprise and on the host country policy. In particular, we examine how both parties’ incentives can be controlled through the ownership structure in an international joint venture. In contrast to existing arguments we show that spillovers must not always have negative effects on technology trans...

Level-set based inverse lithography technology (ILT) treats photomask design for microlithography as an inverse mathematical problem, interpreted with a time-dependent model, and then solved as a partial differential equation with finite difference schemes. This paper focuses on developing level-set based ILT for partially coherent systems, and upon that an expectation-orient optimization frame...

Many developing countries are liberalizing their economies to allow higher equity participation by the foreign firms. We argue that the possibility of joint venture can reduce the number of technology transfers. Hence, joint venture can reduce the welfare of a host-country by creating higher market-concentration. However, higher profit generation under joint venture encourages the foreign firm ...

Kyoto Protocol allows developing countries to obtain technology transfer from developed countries under the framework of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Although South Africa is an ideal country to implement CDM projects, it lags behind many other countries in the number of CDM projects. This result prohibits South Africa to obtain technology transfer. This paper studies what licensing mode ...

It is now evident that sustainability of an organisation is affected by its capability for the utilisation and development of new technologies. This potential, as the engine of strategic development of organisations, is based on the quality and quantity of the transfer of technology into organisations in both developed and developing countries. The fact that organisations in the first world are...