We present an algorithm for automatically constructing a decompositional shape model from examples. Unlike current approaches to structural model acquisition, in which one-to-one correspondences among appearance-based features are used to construct an exemplar-based model, we search for many-tomany correspondences among qualitative shape features (multi-scale ridges and blobs) to construct a ge...

in the september 15, 2016 issue of science, dr. richard stone wrote a report regarding selling theses and research articles in iran. there are noteworthy points in this report which truly disturb the iranian scientific community, but the present report is not the whole truth about the iranian scientific community. iran’s scientific infrastructure was destroyed in the eight-year imposed war by s...

during the 1960’s, many as was firmly supported by the historical founders of econometrics, had hoped that econometrics would provide a sound scientific foundation for econometrics in which each element of specification would be determined primarily on the basis of economic theory. however, due to misusing of econometrics and also wide usage of the so called cookbook econometrics, many research...

Theories of interorganizational coordination propose that that the fit between information processing capabilities (structure, process and technology) and information processing needs (environmental, partnership and task uncertainty) is a strong determinant of IOS performance. Recently, electronic marketplaces have replaced many traditional interorganizational systems (IOS). While traditional I...

Different auction-based approaches have been used to allocate resources in Grids, but none of them provide the design choice for a specific economic model while considering the interest of all participants in the market. In this paper, we implement an auction-based framework for producer and consumer matchmaking in an ad-hoc Grid. In ad-hoc Grids, where the availability of resources and tasks i...

The ambiguity of natural language can be an important source of creative concepts. In compositional languages, a many-to-many network of associations exists linking concepts by the polysemy and synonymy of utterances. This network allows utterances to represent the combination of concepts, forming new and potentially interesting compound meanings. At the same time, new experiences of external a...