If teams are tied (having the same regular season won-lost-tied record), the playoff seeding is determined by a set of tie-breaking rules.
Before storing the reduced set of tie-points, a final validation of the points in the image space is performed.
In particular, the comparison of the BBA results, i.e. Tapas in MicMac, using all the tie-points or a reduced set of tie-points are considered.
Social network is here defined a social structure made up of a set of ties between social actors (individuals, groups, organizations), c.f. Parsons [26].
In general, a network is considered to be "a set of nodes and the set of ties representing some relationship, or lack of relationship, between nodes" (Brass et al. 2004, p. 795).
By using the reduced set of tie-points Tapas is around thirty time faster, its memory usage decreases of about 90% and it requires much less iterations to converge to the solution.
In Table 2 the comparison of three different cases is shown: the full set of tie points (No reduction), and the results achieved by the two reduction algorithms decreasing the full set of points to approximately the 5% of the original size.
The online report [25] of the project "Improving Open-Source Photogrammetric Workflows for Processing Big Datasets" contains a thorough study of the impact of a reduced set of tie-points in relation to the quality of the produced final point cloud.
For an extended description and a study on the impact in the quality of the produced point cloud using the reduced set of tie-points, the reader can refer to the online report of the project "Improving Open-Source Photogrammetric Workflows for Processing Big Datasets" funded by the Netherlands eScience Center [25].
But if the capabilities formed while building this infrastructure allow for a further set of ties for development ― logistical networks and citizen networks connecting different places ― it can only help boost economic activity".
