Dr. Mark Josephson was an innovative giant in clinical electrophysiology. On 11 January 2017 he passed away after a long illness. Josephson started his scientific carrier in the early 1970s at the electrophysiological laboratory of Dr. Anthony Damato on Staten Island. Later he moved to Philadelphia to start his own laboratory. In 1978 and 1979 he published a series of four famous key papers in ...

Vol. XLIV (May 2007), 234–250 234 © 2007, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Mark Heitmann is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: mark. [email protected]), and Andreas Herrmann is Professor of Business (e-mail: [email protected]), University of St. Gallen. Donald R. Lehmann is George E. Warren Professor of Business, Graduate School of B...

This paper presents an effective and general purpose search algorithm for alignment, and we applied it to IC printed mark quality inspection. The search procedure is based on normalized cross correlation, and we improve the method with hierarchical resolution pyramid, dynamic programming, subpixel accuracy, multiple target search, and automatic model selection. The proposed search method can be...

1 The author's work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of the PhD program “Enabling Technologies for Electronic Commerce” at Darmstadt University of Technology. Abstract The extreme Programming methodology (XP) relies on co-located collaboration of programming teams. This paper discusses problems and possible solutions when distributed teams decide to do XP. Comm...