This Master’s Thesis presents a developed tracking algorithm which fuses different object detections. These object detections are obtained from different detectors. These detectors are: a laser leg detector and a tag vision detector. The fusion has the objective to obtain more robust object detections; moreover, it has the capability to distinguish specific people. In the future, it is intend t...

The fragment-based approach for visual object recognition and classification suggests that informative image fragments are useful for performing classification and recognition tasks. Informative fragments proved to be efficient features for object classification in computational studies of this approach. Biological studies support the possibility that visual recognition processes use such fragm...

Information integration within enterprises is hindered by differences in software and hardware platforms and by syntactic and semantic differences in the schemas of the various heterogeneous data sources. This is a well-known problem in the area of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), where many applications have been developed for the purpose of information integration. Most current tools...

This study is a quantitative and functional corpus-based study of self-mention in soft science Master theses. One important purpose of this study was to find out the functions of self-mention in soft science Master theses. For this purpose, 20 soft science Master theses in four disciplines (Applied linguistics, Psychology, Geography, and Political sciences), were randomly selected out of the li...

This study is a corpus-based study of interactional metadiscourse in natural and social science master theses. For this purpose, 30 natural and social science master theses in six disciplines were randomly selected out of the library of five universities. Five master theses were selected in each discipline, in a period of six years (2010-2016).This study analyzed only the discussion and conclus...

Artifact-centric process modelling is a promising technology to manage business operations. The Guard-Stage-Milestone (GSM) life-cycle is a declarative approach to specify artifacts and their lifecycles. Currently there’s no approach to manage process variability in the field of artifact-centric business process models. Existing variability management approaches are designed especially for acti...

Network Function Virtualization has emerged as an operator proposal for offering network services with network functions implemented in software, which may be located in Data Centers, network nodes or even in a virtual machine. NFV is theoretically applicable to any network function and aims at simplifying the management of heterogeneous hardware platforms. Using as a basis one of the network f...