John Weng and Yuntao Cui Narendra Ahuja Ajit Singh Computer Science Department Beckman Institute Siemens Corporate Research Michigan State University University of Illinois 755 College Road East East Lansing, MI 48824 Urbana, IL 61801 Princeton, NJ 08540 Abstract A transitory image sequence is one in which no scene element is visible through the entire sequence. This article deals with some maj...

We study the rare event behavior of the workload process in a transitory queue, where the arrival epochs (or ‘points’) of a finite number of jobs are assumed to be the ordered statistics of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables. The service times (or ‘marks’) of the jobs are assumed to be i.i.d. random variables with a general distribution, that are jointly independe...

We introduce the concept of a “transitory” dynamical system—one whose time-dependence is confined to a compact interval—and show how to quantify transport between two-dimensional Lagrangian coherent structures for the Hamiltonian case. This requires knowing only the “action” of relevant heteroclinic orbits at the intersection of invariant manifolds of “forward” and “backward” hyperbolic orbits....

This paper proposes a new method of calculating the proportion of permanently impoverished persons among persons in poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers & Rodgers (1993). The characteristic...

This paper estimates equilibrium rates of macroeconomic aggregates for small open economies. We simultaneously identify the transitory and permanent components of output, inflation, the interest rate and the exchange rate by means of a multivariate trend-cycle decomposition. Realizations of the observed macroeconomic aggregates are explained in terms of unobserved equilibrium rates and unobserv...