Existing representations for multiattribute ceteris paribus preference statements have provided useful treatments and clear semantics for qualitative comparisons, but have not provided similarly clear representations or semantics for comparisons involving quantitative tradeoffs. We use directional derivatives and other concepts from elementary differential geometry to interpret conditional mult...

This paper analyzes the performance of directional collision avoidance schemes, in which antenna systems are used to direct the transmission and reception of control and data packets in channel access protocols based on fourway collision avoidance handshake. We present an analytical model that considers both directional reception and the possible difference in gain between omnidirectional and d...

Abstract The selective management system (SMS) practised in Malaysia has emerged to optimise the sustainability of permanently reserved forest management. SMS requires a regime (felling) ensure economical harvesting and appropriate residual stands for logging cycle, including ecological balance environmental quality. includes Post-Felling Forest Inventory (Post-F) sequence. Post-F is used obtai...

objectives: conducting field tests of a vibrotactile aid for deaf/deafblind persons for detection, identification and directional perception of environmental sounds. methods: five deaf (3f/2m, 22–36 years) individuals tested the aid separately in a home environment (kitchen) and in a traffic environment. their eyes were blindfolded and they wore a headband and holding a vibrator for sound ident...

A new method for feature extraction and recognition, namely the fuzzy bidirectional weighted sum criterion (FBWSC) is proposed in this paper. FBWSC defines the row directional fuzzy image optimal image projection matrix. Subsequently, each sample in the original training sample set is transformed using the row directional optimal image projection matrix, and the row directional feature training...

Automatic facial recognition has many potential applications in different areas of humancomputer interaction. However, they are not yet fully realized due to the lack of an effectivefacial feature descriptor. In this paper, we present a new appearance based feature descriptor,the local directional pattern (LDP), to represent facial geometry and analyze its performance inrecognition. An LDP feat...

where Δpu = div(|∇u|p−2∇u) is the p-Laplacian of u with 1 < p < ∞, and λ is a real parameter. Moreover, Ω is a smooth bounded domain in RN , N ≥ 1, whose boundary ∂Ω is made of two disjoint nonempty closed sets Γ1 and Γ2 which are smooth manifolds of dimension N − 1, m and n are weights which may be indefinite and unbounded, ∂/∂ν denotes the exterior normal derivative, and u± = max{±u,0}. The m...

This paper proposes statistical analysis of phase-only correlation functions based on linear statistics and directional statistics. We derive the expectation and variance of the phase-only correlation functions assuming phase-spectrum differences of two input signals to be probability variables. We first assume linear probability distributions for the phasespectrum differences. We next assume c...

where σn−1 denotes the surface measure of the unit sphere S n−1 = {z ∈ R : |z| = 1}, and |z| denotes the standard Euclidean norm of z ∈ R. This formula is given in equation (18) on p125 of [Ste1], and it is proved by using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to first write f(x) as the integral along any ray emanating from x of the directional derivative of f in the direction of the ray, and the...