In this paper, we present a systematic investigation of the variability of the human cortical folding using a generic gyral model (GGM). The GGM consists of a fixed number of vertices that can be registered non-linearly to an individual anatomy so that for each individual we have a clearly defined set of landmarks that is spread across the cortex. This allows us to obtain a regionalized estimat...

Glift is an abstraction and generic template library for parallel, random-access data structures on graphics processing units (GPUs). Glift simplifies the description of new and existing GPU data structures, stimulates development of complex GPU algorithms, performs equivalently to hand-coded implementations, and introduces a parallel iteration model for GPU computation.

We discuss the issues and challenges of generic object recognition. We argue that high-level, volumetric part-based descriptions are essential in the process of recognizing objects that might never have been observed before, and for which no exact geometric model is available. We discuss the representation scheme and its relationships to the three main tasks to solve: extracting descriptions fr...

We compare three notions of genericity of separable metric structures. Our analysis provides a general model theoretic technique of showing that structures are generic in discriptive set theoretic (topological) sense and in measure theoretic sense. In particular, it gives a new perspective on Vershik’s theorems on genericity and randomness of Urysohn’s space among separable metric spaces.

We present generic knowledge to speed up the construction of information system requirements and more importantly the behavioral part of entities. Our solution is based on the hypothesis that generic structures (independent of a particular application) can be associated to classes of real world phenomena. Building information system requirements using such structures means to instantiate those ...

The genus Cyrtopodion is the most widely distributed of the four gekkonid genera of the angular-toed geckos that inhabit Pakistan and the contiguous Palearctic Region (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996), from the Indus Valley to the eastern borders of the Caspian Sea. Longitudinal rows of trihedral tubercles characteristically line the dorsum of these angular-toed geckos. They primarily inhabit arid bad...

One primary problem in shape optimization of structures is making a robust link between design model (geometric description) and analysis model. This paper investigates the potential of Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) for solving this problem. The generic framework of shape optimization of structures is presented based on Isogeometric analysis. By discretization of domain via NURBS functions, the a...

Recently, generic programming becomes of a major interest in several programming paradigms. A recurrent idea to achieve genericity is to abstract computations from their representative data structures. This allows these generic speciications to be instantiated onto a large number of neighboring data structures. Moreover the program can be adapted when the data structures have to evolve. Polytyp...

In this talk, we introduce that generic topological structures of global stream-line patterns generated by the complex velocity potentials of uniform flows and pointvortices are uniquely represented by labelled trees. Moreover, we show that topologicalstructures of generic surface flows can be represented by finite combinational structures.Finally, we discuss the relations betwe...