Cohen-Boyer patent: Licensees ponder weaknesses

Limiting Downstream Effects of Patent Licensing Activity in Software and Electronics: An Argument for Alienability of Patent Licenses to Licensees' Business Successors

On Boyer-Moore Preprocessing

Probably the two best-known exact string matching algorithms are the linear-time algorithm of Knuth, Morris and Pratt (KMP), and the fast on average algorithm of Boyer and Moore (BM). The efficiency of these algorithms is based on using a suitable failure function. When a mismatch occurs in the currently inspected text position, the purpose of a failure function is to tell how many positions th...

Chemistry: Richards and Boyer

remains to be done in order that perfect certainty may be attained, nevertheless the outcome must be regarded as promising in pointing toward an adequate and convenient method of separating gallium from other metals. Three fractional samples of the chloride discussed in the previous section were analyzed, using the usual methods employed in Harvard University in order to make a preliminary dete...

Boyer-Moore algorithm

Sometimes the bad character heuristics fails. In the following situation the comparison a-b causes a mismatch. An alignment of the rightmost occurence of the pattern symbol a with the text symbol a would produce a negative shift. Instead, a shift by 1 would be possible. However, in this case it is better to derive the maximum possible shift distance from the structure of the pattern. This metho...

French researchers ponder election prospects

The Tour de France traditionally includes a short foray into one of the neighbouring countries. This year, it is set to start from Britain. Similarly, Nicolas Sarkozy, who currently holds the yellow jersey of the poll leader in a French race that is only held every five years, visited London at the beginning of February in order to draw international attention to his campaign. Or to show off hi...