We consider the following generalization of bin packing. Each item is associated with a size bounded by 1, as well as a rejection cost, that an algorithm must pay if it chooses not...
This paper presents a quick and simple method for converting complex images and video to perceptually accurate greyscale versions. We use a two-step approach first to globally ass...
This paper describes the design and evaluation of prosodically-sensitive concatenative units for a Korean text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system. The diphones used are prosodically...
-- The classical Wardrop System Optimum (SO) assignment model assumes that the users will cooperate with each other in order to minimize the overall travel costs. The importance of...
Frederico R. B. Cruz, Tom Van Woensel, James MacGr...
: In this paper, the potentialities of transvariation (Gini, 1959) in measuring the separation between two groups of multivariate observations are explored. With this aim, a modifi...