This paper examines knowledge sharing in a cross-cultural context. We draw on a field study of a Jamaican-Indian software team to unpack how the system specification (spec) and formal coordination affected knowledge sharing and team performance. Our theoretical approach uses Polanyi’s theory of knowledge as processes of sense reading and sense giving, and recent developments in boundary theory ...

This paper presents a novel Boundary-based approach in one-class classification that is inspired by support vector data description (SVDD). The SVDD is a popular kernel method which tries to fit a hypersphere around the target objects and of course more precise boundary is relied on selecting proper parameters for the kernel functions. Even with a flexible Gaussian kernel function, the SVDD cou...

In this paper, we propose an improved region-based active contour model in a variational level set formulation. We define an energy functional with a local intensity fitting term, which induces a local force to attract the contour and stops it at object boundaries, and an auxiliary global intensity fitting term, which drives the motion of the contour far away from object boundaries. Therefore, ...

Automatic Audio Segmentation aims at extracting information on a song’s structure, i.e., segment boundaries, musical form and semantic labels like verse, chorus, bridge etc. This information can be used to create representative song excerpts or summaries, to facilitate browsing in large music collections or to improve results of subsequent music processing applications like, e.g., query by humm...

During the last decade, network approaches became a powerful tool to describe protein structure and dynamics. Here, we describe first the protein structure networks of molecular chaperones, then characterize chaperone containing sub-networks of interactomes called as chaperone-networks or chaperomes. We review the role of molecular chaperones in short-term adaptation of cellular networks in res...

The enormous growth of the Interact and the World-Wide Web led to the emergence of various forms of cooperation beyond organizational boundaries. Also, the growth of the solutions business market encouraged enterprises to develop customer-centric services, which require rapid and dynamic service process coordination for on-demand services providing. Through the observation of these tendencies, ...

Computer Tomography (CT) and in particular super fast, 64 and 256 detector CT has rapidly advanced over recent years, such that high resolution cardiac imaging has become a reality. In this paper, we provide a solution to the problem of automatically constructing three dimensional (3D) finite-element mesh models (FEM) of the human heart directly from high resolution CT. Our overall computationa...

This paper presents Japanese morphological analysis based on conditional random fields (CRFs). Previous work in CRFs assumed that observation sequence (word) boundaries were fixed. However, word boundaries are not clear in Japanese, and hence a straightforward application of CRFs is not possible. We show how CRFs can be applied to situations where word boundary ambiguity exists. CRFs offer a so...

ÐA framework for automatic landmark indentification is presented based on an algorithm for corresponding the boundaries of two shapes. The auto-landmarking framework employs a binary tree of corresponded pairs of shapes to generate landmarks automatically on each of a set of example shapes. The landmarks are used to train statistical shape models known as Point Distribution Models. The correspo...

Natural selection has favoured specialization in anthropophilic mosquito host choice, yet in the absence of human hosts, females feed on a selected range of vertebrates. For host recognition, we hypothesize that mosquitoes primarily rely on generic host volatiles. Detection and perception of such compounds would provide the mosquito with a flexible, yet constrained, odour coding system that cou...