Abstract: In the literature of Economics, Engineering and Operations Research, the estimation of production frontiers is a current hot topic. Many parametric and nonparametric methodologies have been ...

Abstract: Minimal path techniques can efficiently extract geometrically curve-like structures by finding the path with minimal accumulated cost between two given endpoints. Though having found wide ...

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RI is a general purpose algorithm for one-to-one exact subgraph isomorphism problem maintaining topological constraints. It is both a C++ library and a standalone tool, providing developing API and a ...

Say you’re at a party with nine other people and everyone shakes everyone else’s hand exactly once. How many handshakes take place? This is the “handshake problem,” and it’s one of my favorites. As a ...

For diabetic retinopathy (DR) surgery, localization of retinal blood vessels is of paramount importance. Fundus images which are often used for DR diagnosis suffer from poor contrast (between the ...

The propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) was the first to be shown NP-complete by Cook and Levin. SAT remained the embodiment of theoretical worst-case hardness. However, in stark contrast to ...

1 On our inability to do much. 4 On the reliability of mechanisms. 8 On our mental aids. 15 An example of a correctness proof. 19 On the validity of proofs versus the validity of implementations. 21 ...