From:: tar@medg.lcs.mit.edu (Thomas A. Russ)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 12:26:00 EST
To: gsl@ai.mit.edu
Subject: SEMINAR ON VISCERAL NUTRITION PROCESSING

15 March 1991
12:10pm
NE43 - 8th Floor Playroom



			  Abuncha Balone Ni

		      Department of Cuisine Art
			CornedBeef University



		     Comparing Buffets Using the
		Essundfress Distance Under Translation

  
                                 ABSTRACT

   The Essundfress distance measures the extent to which  each item of
a `menu' set lies near some point  of an `access'  set and vice versa.
Thus this distance indicates the degree of ease of  assembly of a meal
when  two component foodstuffs must  be  superimposed  on one another.
Real world  examples include Corned  Beef on Rye  and Tomato  sauce on
Spaghetti.  We have developed an efficient algorithm for computing the
Essundfress  distance between  a  three course  menu and all  possible
positions (translations) of a queue, or a portion of  that queue.  The
method is  exact  up to the quantization  of the data for the research
group  and   maximum degree  length norms,   and   is within  a  given
percentage error  for the Beardian norm.    In  practice the method is
both highly efficient and simple  to implement.   The technique is  in
many ways  similar to  mass lottery  correlation, however  it is  more
tolerant  of perturbations in  the  locations  of   points  because it
measures proximity rather than exact superposition.



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