My long and enjoyable interaction with computer science goes back one and a half decades, to the moment when I first learned to program. Before college, my main motivation in studying computer science was participating in computer olympiads. Among my achievements there were winning the first prize at the Romanian National Olympiad 9 years in a row, and obtaining 7 international medals (among wh...

Recent years have seen more and more demand for a unified framework to address multiple realistic image retrieval tasks concerning both category and attributes. Considering the scale of modern datasets, hashing is favorable for its low complexity. However, most existing hashing methods are designed to preserve one single kind of similarity, thus improper for dealing with the different tasks sim...

This paper addresses the underlying principles of Evolvable Assembly Systems. This paradigm was recently proposed as an answer to the requirements faced by assembly companies in the current world of business and technological change.i. The basis for this new approach lies in a muhi-disciplinary study of the needs and requirements, and shifts the technological focus from complex, flexible, multi...