■ Goal pursuit in humans sometimes involves approaching unpleasant and avoiding pleasant stimuli, such as when a dieter chooses to eat vegetables (although he does not like them...
We consider the problem of solving a linear system Ax = b over a cyclotomic field. What makes cyclotomic fields of special interest is that we can easily find a prime p that sp...
We propose a new way to raise the level of discourse in the programming process: permit ambiguity, but manage it by linking it to unambiguous examples. This allows programming env...
—Medial representations of shapes are useful due to their use of an object-centered coordinate system that directly captures intuitive notions of shape such as thickness, bending...
In image processing, the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) model [L. Rudin, S. Osher, and E. Fatemi, Physica D, 60(1992), pp. 259–268] based on total variation (TV) minimization has prove...