Advanced driver assistance using cameras is a first important step towards autonomous driving tasks. However, the computational power in automobiles is highly limited and hardware platforms with enormous processing resources such as GPUs are not available in serial production vehicles. In our paper we address the need for a highly efficient fusion method that is well suited for standard CPUs. W...

Traditional class-based object-oriented data models and programming languages do not allow an object to have several types or to play diierent roles while keeping the same identity. Therefore, the modeling of persistent evolving entities is a diicult task. Some speciic models and languages exist, but do not support some of the features of traditional OODB models such as inheritance, late bindin...

regarding the highly intensive competition in the market, nowadays using customer-oriented strategies is necessary for retention and attraction of the costumers. nevertheless, using those kinds of strategies depends on understanding customer behavior patterns and classification of customers in accordance with those patterns. the current study aims to determine the strategies for dealing with ne...

Our case-based reasoning (CBI~) integration with the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) formalism has undergone several transformations on its journey from initial research idea to product-intent design. Both unexpected research results as well as interesting insights into the real-world applicability of the integrated methodology emerged as the integration was explored from alternative view...

due to the importance of “service quality and customerssatisfaction” subject, this study seeks to investigate and prioritize thefactors which are effective on service quality and customers satisfactionusing grey relational analysis (gra) method. in the case of statisticalpopulations with large sizes, none of the other methods can competewith gra from the viewpoint of calculation accuracy. the s...

This paper demonstrates an application of Conceptual Graphs (CGs) in the area of software engineering. We employ CGs as a meta-representation language to enhance consistency checking within a multiperspective development environment, i.e. one which employs and utilises a number of ViewPoints. We have built a ViewPoint-based prototype called the √iewer+CG to show such application of CGs. A ViewP...

In this paper, we propose a robust and efficient method to integrate the multi-view panoramic range data using the global features acquired from panorama range data. In our approach, the planes with similar normal vectors are handled as one group, and multiple plane groups are extracted from the multi-view panoramic range data. Next, the transformation ( r e tation and translation) parameters b...

Channel changes customers W ith the right stimulation, an ion channel changes its stripes, say Man-Kyo Chung, Ali Guler, and Michael Caterina (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD). Even ion channels that are a little promiscuous have their favorite passengers. Such channels were generally thought to stay true to their preferred customers. But Chung et al. found that the TRPV1 channe...