We first introduce two functions on finitely additive probability spaces that behave well under products: discrepancy, which measures how close one space comes to extending another, and bi-discrepancy, which is a pseudo-metric on the collection of all spaces on a given set, and a metric on the collection of complete spaces. We then apply these to show that the Loeb space of the internal product...

Heteroepitaxial strain can be a controlling factor in the lateral dimensions of 1-D nanostructures. Bi nanolines on Si(001) have an atomic structure which involves a large sub-surface reconstruction, resulting in a strong elastic coupling to the surrounding silicon. We present variable-bias STM and first principles electronic structure calculations of the Bi nanolines, which investigates this i...

Business Intelligence aims to improve decision quality. Research on BI achieving this goal is inconclusive, yet BI is still one of the top priorities among CIOs and is an active IS research area. A better understanding of the relationship between human intelligence and BI capabilities may lead to more fruitful BI endeavors. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that links capabilities of B...

In this digital age organizations depend upon the technologies to provide customer-centric solutions by understanding well about their customers’ behaviour and continuously improving business process of the organization. Business intelligence (BI) applications will play a vital role at this stage by discovering the knowledge hidden in internal as well as external sources. On the other hand, Kno...

Automatic extraction of bilingual Multi-Word Units is an important subject of research in the automatic bilingual corpus alignment field. There are many cases of single source words corresponding to target multi-word units. This paper presents an algorithm for the automatic alignment of single source words and target multi-word units from a sentence-aligned parallel spoken language corpus. On t...

On the basis of the v a n der Waals concept of Ascarelli and Paskin the hard sphere theory of self diffusion is extended to binary l iquid alloys. Using only the melt ing temperature of the pure metals and the densities, component self-diffusion coefficients and, w i t h the help of Darken's equation, mutua l diffusion coefficients were calculated. Agreement w i t h experimental results is good...

BBN submitted system combination outputs for Czech-English, German-English, SpanishEnglish, and French-English language pairs. All combinations were based on confusion network decoding. The confusion networks were built using incremental hypothesis alignment algorithm with flexible matching. A novel bi-gram count feature, which can penalize bi-grams not present in the input hypotheses correspon...

1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia 2Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia 3Quantitative Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, Eberhardt Karls Univeristy, Tuebingen, Germany 4Psychology Department, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA 5Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticu...

Sampling-based motion planners are a central tool for solving motionplanning problems in a variety of domains, but the theoretical understanding of their behavior remains limited, in particular with respect to the quality of the paths they generate (in terms of path length, clearance, etc.). In this paper we prove, for a simple family of obstacle settings, that the popular dual-tree planner Bi-...

The ongoing high relevance of business intelligence (BI) for the management and competitiveness of organizations requires a continuous, transparent, and detailed assessment of existing BI solutions in the enterprise. This paper presents a BI maturity model (called biMM) that has been developed and refined over years. It is used for both, in surveys to determine the overall BI maturity in German...