Lithuania

The chapter focuses on the development of political communication and campaigning in Lithuania. It starts with a brief overview of the basic characteristics of the political and party system. Then, it introduces the main laws and rules the campaigners must comply with. After that, the author describes the evolution of communication tactics and techniques used by parties and candidates to persuade voters to vote for them over the last three decades. At the end of the chapter, the author discusses the most recent campaigning trends in Lithuania and summarises the chapterPolitologijos katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta

CONCERNING A FLOWERY TABLECLOTH AND THE COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS OF A 19TH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE / APIE GĖLĖTĄ STALTIESĘ IR XIX AMŽIAUS FOTOGRAFIJOS KOMPIUTERINĘ VAIZDO ANALIZĘ

Straipsnyje supažindinama su kai kuriomis senosios fotografijos datavimo problemomis, kurios iškilo rengiant publikavimui ir analizuojant bei komentuojant prelato Povilo Januševičiaus XIX amžiaus pabaigos – XX amžiaus pradžios fotografijų albumą. Pateikiama fotografijų vaizdo, fotografijų fotokortelių analizė. Supažindinama, kaip būtų galima spręsti fotografijų datavimo problemas, derinant tyrėjo įžvalgas ir pasitelkiant informacines technologijas. Taip pat pateikiamas technologinio pobūdžio tyrimas, kurio metu buvo tikrinamas gėlėtos staltiesės panašumas skirtingose nuotraukose. Šiuolaikinės vaizdo apdorojimo ir analizės programos suteikia kokybiškai naujas galimybes, kada tampa įmanomas automatizuotas objektų, simbolių ar veidų atpažinimas ir identifikavimas.The paper introduces some peculiarities of the analysis of the photographic image which emerged in the process of the investigation and preparation for publication of the album of prelate Povilas Januševičius’ the end of 19th – beginning of 20th century. Miscellaneous analysis of photograph image is presented. It also introduces how problems of photograph dating could be solved by combining insights of investigator as well as application of information technology. Among other things a technological study is being presented in which similarity of flowered tablecloth was analysed in different photographs. Up-to-date programs for processing and analyzing images open up completely new possibilities leading to automatic recognition and identification of objects, symbols and faces

FINDING A SOLUTION FOR A COMPLEX STREET ROUTING PROBLEM USING THE MIXED TRANSPORTATION MODE

The Street Routing Problem (SRP) is a special case of the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The goal is to service a large number of customers in the city zone. New heuristics for solving a complex SRP is evaluated based on real data. This paper presents several approximations to the length of SRP using the mixed transportation mode and compares them with the published approximations used for VRP or Travelling Salesman Problems (TSP). The system was tested in five real world instances ranging from 12000 to 29000 customers