One of the important image and video registration goals is the accurate motion and structure estimation. On the other hand, a good motion estimation is also an important requirement for most mosaicing and novel view generation techniques. While it has been well known for a while that narrow field-of-view cameras have a hard time distinguishing between certain kinds of rotations and translations...

The review presented in this paper examines the evidence on use of expert judgment, formal models, and a combination of these two approaches when estimating (forecasting) software development work effort. Sixteen relevant studies were identified and reviewed. The review found that the average accuracy of expert judgment-based effort estimates was higher than the average accuracy of the models i...

This chapter describes reference analysis, a method to produce Bayesian inferential statements which only depend on the assumed model and the available data. Statistical information theory is used to define the reference prior function as a mathematical description of that situation where data would best dominate prior knowledge about the quantity of interest. Reference priors are not descripti...

Methods for incorporating imprecision in engineering design decision-making are briefly reviewed and compared. A tutorial is presented on the Method of Imprecision (MoI), a formal method, based on the mathematics of fuzzy sets, for representing and manipulating imprecision in engineering design. The results of a design cost estimation example, utilizing a new informal cost specification, are pr...

introduction: the drive for health care and medical sciences to become evidence-based has been accelerated during recent years and therefore quick access to relevant information without the use of information and communication technology seems impossible. the aim of this study was to evaluate medical students' knowledge of computers and information science in urmia university. methods: this sur...

Most recently, the concept of business documents has started to play double role. On one hand, a document (word processing text or calculation sheet) can be used as specification tool, on other hand is an immanent constituent processes, thereby essential component information systems. The recent tendency that majority and their contents within systems remain in semi-structured format lesser par...