Georges Perec's La Vie mode d'emploi ( Life: A User's Manual) was famously based on a number of meticulously crafted lists, including list errors that should be made in the writing each chapter. The engagement with imperfection novel is central way it balances structure and composition random exchangeable elements throughout his work plays significant role. In this article, I will move from to ...

In high-volume information systems, there is a trade-off between ease of querying and selectivity of the query (and thus relevance of the result set). This can be overcome by incorporating user context information into the interaction. But user context information is hard to acquire due to its dynamic nature and the approximative methods. This thesis work proposes a context model, which builds ...

Adaptive hypermedia applications are aimed at tailoring hypermedia structures according to some form of user model, in an attempt to increase the usability and utility of the application for each individual or group. Existing research in the field has resulted in many systems, techniques and paradigms both for modeling user data and for the subsequent exploitation of such model for the sake of ...

This article is concerned with the consensus control problem for a general class of linear multiagent systems (MASs) subject to actuator imperfection consisting both saturations and faults. A novel two-step saturation-resistant approach proposed attenuate side effects resulting from imperfection. In first step controller design, state information received neighboring agents used design capable ...

The inherent imperfection of clinical diagnostic tests introduces uncertainty into their interpretation. The magnitude of diagnostic uncertainty after any test result may be quantified by information theory. The information content of the electrocardiographic ST-segment response to exercise, relative to the diagnosis of angiographic coronary artery disease, was determined using literature-based...

We consider quasi-perfect codes in Z over the `p metric, 2 ≤ p <∞. Through a computational approach, we determine all radii for which there are linear quasi-perfect codes for p = 2 and n = 2, 3. Moreover, we study codes with a certain degree of imperfection, a notion that generalizes the quasi-perfect codes. Numerical results concerning the codes with the smallest degree of imperfection are pre...

This paper presents a joint imperfection detection method for on-line process monitoring of laser brazing processes. The method uses images from two spectral ranges and fuses their features with the scores of the separately calculated log-likelihood ratios to decide whether the currently generated part of a joint contains an imperfection or not. To avoid unconfident classifications, a decision ...

This paper examines a short-time estimation problem of an origin-destination (OD) matrix, where each element is a volume of vehicle flow between one of the OD pair of zones of a signalised junction. The estimation is based on the use of traffic measurements provided by video sensors and on the knowledge of the traffic lights. This data is subject to redundancy, imprecision and uncertainty. The ...

Requirement Specifications are very difficult to define. Due to lack of information and differences in interpretation, software engineers are faced with the necessity to redesign and iterate. This imperfection in software requirement specifications is commonly addressed by incremental design. In this paper, we advocate an approach where the imperfect requirements in requirement specifications a...

Perfect graphs constitute a well-studied graph class with a rich structure, reflected by many characterizations with respect to different concepts. Perfect graphs are, for instance, precisely those graphs G where the stable set polytope STAB(G) equals the fractional stable set polytope QSTAB(G). The dilation ratio min{t : QSTAB(G) ⊆ t STAB(G)} of the two polytopes yields the imperfection ratio ...