Since their introduction a little more than 10 years ago, wavelets have revolutionized image processing. Wavelet based algorithms define the state-of-the-art for applications including image coding (JPEG2000), restoration, and segmentation. Despite their success, wavelets have significant shortcomings in their treatment of edges. Wavelets do not parsimoniously capture even the simplest geometri...

Considering the speed in which humans resolve syntactic ambiguity, and the overwhelming evidence that syntactic ambiguity is resolved through selection of the analysis whose interpretation is the most ‘sensible’, one comes to the conclusion that interpretation, hence parsing take place incrementally, just about every word. Considerations of parsimony in the theory of the syntactic processor lea...

Direct measures of expectations, derived from survey data, are used in a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model of actual and expected manufacturing output series in six European economies over the period 1968-1998. No evidence is found with which to reject rationality in the derived expectations series when measurement error is appropriately taken into account. The VAR analysis is used to derive me...

We investigated the phylogeny of the genus Cynanthus and the taxonomic status of C. doubledayi using partial sequences of the mitochondrial DNA gene ND2 and three phylogenetic approaches: maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian inference. Our results corroborate the monophyly of the genus and provide preliminary support for the validity of C. doubledayi as a full species (not a subs...

Families of kernels that are useful in a variety of early vision algorithms may be obtained by rotating and scaling in a continuum a `template' kernel. These multi-scale multi-orientation family may be approximated by linear interpolation of a discrete nite set of appropriatèbasis' kernels. A scheme for generating such a basis together with the appropriate interpolation weights is described. Un...

With the advent of large-scale DNA physical mapping and se-quencing, studies of genome rearrangements are becoming increasingly important in evolutionary molecular biology. From a computational perspective, study of evolution based on rearrangements leads to rearrangement distance problem, i.e., computing the minimum number of rearrangement events required to transform one genome into another. ...

Heterogeneity is also advantageous – economics of dangerous domains, diversity of skills, parsimony. Perception, locomotion, knowledge may differ Distributed Formation Control of Heterogeneous Robots with Limited Information Michael de Denus, John Anderson, and Jacky Baltes Autonomous Agents Laboratory, Department of Computer Science University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T2N2 Moti...

This paper provides a beginning study of the effects on inductive inference of paradigm shifts whose absence is approximately modeled by various formal approaches to forbidding large changes in the size of programs conjectured. One approach, called severely parsimonious, requires all the programs conjectured on the way to success to be nearly (i.e., within a recursive function of) minimal size....

This paper presents a scheme for classifying the Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. SCM is broadly defined to include all classical business functions and theoretic management disciplines which impacted this emerging field. Consequently, its literature is very disjoint and disparate. It transcends several academic disciplines and professions. This paper presents a way to define the field...

We introduce a model for simulating mutation of prokaryote DNA sequences. Using that model we can then evaluated traditional techniques like parsimony and maximum likelihood methods for computing phylogenetic relationships. We also use the model to mimic large scale genomic changes, and use this to evaluate multifractal and related information theory techniques which take into account these lar...