Character And Handwriting Recognition: Expanding Frontiers
Character And Handwriting Recognition: Expanding Frontiers

Author: Patrick S P Wang

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1991-08-29

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9814602787

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Character and handwriting recognition by computers is attracting much attention particularly because of its potential for application in many areas such as office automation, bank check processing, recognition of postal addresses and ZIP Codes, signature verification, and document and text recognition.Over the past four decades, many methods have been proposed, developed and tested for computers to recognize characters, and they have been reported in a variety of publications. The present volume is a coherent and integrated publication containing papers which give new research results in this increasingly active field. It is a boon to researchers, scientists and engineers who need to keep abreast of new developments in character and handwriting methodologies and applications.

Parallel Image Analysis
Parallel Image Analysis

Author: Akira Nakamura

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1992-12-02

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9783540563464

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the Second International Conference on Parallel Image Analysis (ICPIA '92), held in Ube, Japan, December 21-23, 1992. The conference topics are data structures, parallel algorithms and architectures, neural networks, computational vision, syntactic generation and recognition, and multidimensional models. The first meeting with these topics was theInternational Colloquium on Parallel Image Processing, which took place in Paris in June 1991. The aim of the meetings is to bring together specialistsfrom various countries who are interested in the topics and to stimulatetheoretical and practical research in the field of parallel image processingand analysis. The volume contains three invited papers, a summary of a tutorial lecture, and twenty selected and refereed communications.

Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology
Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology

Author: Giovanni Battista Varile

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780521592772

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Languages, in all their forms, are the more efficient and natural means for people to communicate. Enormous quantities of information are produced, distributed and consumed using languages. Human language technology's main purpose is to allow the use of automatic systems and tools to assist humans in producing and accessing information, to improve communication between humans, and to assist humans in communicating with machines. This book, sponsored by the Directorate General XIII of the European Union and the Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation, USA, offers the first comprehensive overview of the human language technology field.

An Introduction to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Computing
An Introduction to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Computing

Author: Timothy D. Huang

Publisher: World Scientific

Published:

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9789971506643

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This first book of its kind gives a comprehensive introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) Computing. Every possible related issue is covered but an in-depth look into Chinese, Japanese and Korean computing problems and environment in particular, is also discussed.Besides being of interest to Oriental Language computing professionals, it also provides a clear overview of the subject to individuals learning CJK Computing and computer companies working on CJK systems.

Advanced Visual Interfaces - Proceedings Of The International Workshop Avi '92
Advanced Visual Interfaces - Proceedings Of The International Workshop Avi '92

Author: Levialdi Stefano

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1992-12-23

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9814554251

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume brings together papers by experts in different areas of computer science, who have a common interest in the design and management of visual interfaces. Since cognitive science and metaphor analysis prove useful for understanding the basic mechanisms which allow visual interfaces to be easy to learn and use, these topics are also featured. Other areas focused on are: visual languages, visual database systems, intelligent agents for system interaction, graphical and pictorial communication tools, multimedia environments and specific technological developments.

Information-Theoretic Incompleteness
Information-Theoretic Incompleteness

Author: Gregory J. Chaitin

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9789810236953

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this mathematical autobiography, Gregory Chaitin presents a technical survey of his work and a nontechnical discussion of its significance. The volume is an essential companion to the earlier collection of Chaitin's papers Information, Randomness and Incompleteness, also published by World Scientific.The technical survey contains many new results, including a detailed discussion of LISP program size and new versions of Chaitin's most fundamental information-theoretic incompleteness theorems. The nontechnical part includes the lecture given by Chaitin in G?del's classroom at the University of Vienna, a transcript of a BBC TV interview, and articles from New Scientist, La Recherche, and the Mathematical Intelligencer.

Introduction To Database And Knowledge-base Systems
Introduction To Database And Knowledge-base Systems

Author: S Krishna

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 1992-03-26

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9813103515

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a comprehensive yet concise coverage of the concepts and technology of database systems and their evolution into knowledge-bases. The traditional material on database systems at senior undergraduate level is covered. An understanding of concepts is emphasized avoiding extremes in formalism or detail.Rather than be restricted to a single example used over an entire book, a variety of examples are used. These enable the reader to understand the basic abstractions which underlie description of many practical situations.A major portion of the book concerns database system technology with focus on the relational model. Various topics are discussed in detail, preparing the ground for more advanced work.

Advances In Machine Vision: Strategies And Applications
Advances In Machine Vision: Strategies And Applications

Author: Colin Archibald

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1992-04-15

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9814505560

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book describes recent strategies and applications for extracting useful information from sensor data. For example, the methods presented by Roth and Levine are becoming widely accepted as the ‘best’ way to segment range images, and the neural network methods for Alpha-numeric character recognition, presented by K Yamada, are believed to be the best yet presented. An applied system to analyze the images of dental imprints presented by J Côté, et al. is one of several examples of image processing systems that have already been proven to be practical, and can serve as a model for the image processing system designer. Important aspects of the automation of processes are presented in a practical way which can provide immediate new capabilities in fields as diverse as biomedical image processing, document processing, industrial automation, understanding human perception, and the defence industries. The book is organized into sections describing Model Driven Feature Extraction, Data Driven Feature Extraction, Neural Networks, Model Building, and Applications.

Mathematical Foundations Of Parallel Computing
Mathematical Foundations Of Parallel Computing

Author: V V Voevodin

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1992-03-24

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 9814505897

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Parallel implementation of algorithms involves many difficult problems. In particular among them are round-off analysis, the way to convert sequential programs and algorithms into the parallel mode, the choice of appropriate or optimal computer architect and so on. To solve these problems, it is necessary to know very well the structure of algorithms. This book deal with the mathematical mechanism that permits us to investigate structures of both sequential and parallel algorithms. This mechanism allows us to recognize and explain the relations between different methods of constructing parallel algorithms, the methods of analysing round-off errors, the methods of optimizing memory traffic, the methods of working out the fastest implementation for a given parallel computer and other methods attending the joint investigation of algorithms and computers.

Non-deterministic Concurrent Logic Programming in Pandora
Non-deterministic Concurrent Logic Programming in Pandora

Author: Reem Bahgat

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9789810212513

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This monograph is the first comprehensive study of the design, application, and implementation of Pandora, a new parallel logic programming language. Pandora combines stream and-parallelism with don't-know non-determinism in a unified and efficient manner. As a result, it provides a programming paradigm of non-deterministic concurrent communicating processes, which opens up interesting application areas that cannot conveniently be expressed in existing logic programming languages. The author describes the use of Pandora for constraint programming, solving resource allocation problems, heuristic search, and distributed discrete event simulation. The final chapters describe in detail the implementation of Pandora on single- as well as multi-processor architectures.The volume is aimed at the community of logic programming students and professionals, as well as researchers and professionals in artificial intelligence. It will also be of great interest to researchers in programming language design and parallel processing.