On Japanese Shore Names

The Transliteration from Alphabet Queries to Japanese Product Names

There are some cases where the nonJapanese buyers are unable to find products they want through the Japanese shopping Web sites because they require Japanese queries. We propose to transliterate the inputs of the non-Japanese user, i.e., search queries written in English alphabets, into Japanese Katakana to solve this problem. In this research, the pairs of the nonJapanese search query which fa...

The Power of Syntopism: Chinese Poetic Place Names on the Map of Early Japanese Poetry

Route: Routing on Names

One of the crucial building blocks for Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a name based routing scheme that can route directly on content names instead of IP addresses. However, moving the address space from IP addresses to content names brings the scalability issues to a whole new level, due to two reasons. First, name aggregation is not as trivial a task as the IP address aggregation in B...

On "identities", "names", "NAMES", "ROLES" and Security: A Manifesto

There is a great deal of confusion in the cryptology literature relating to various identity related issues. By “names” (lower case), we are referring to informal, personal ways that we indicate others; by “NAMES” (upper case) we are referring to official ways that we use to indicate others. Both of these concepts are often confused with “identity”, which is something else altogether, and with ...

Potential on-shore and off-shore reservoirs for CO2 sequestration in Central Atlantic magmatic province basalts.

Identifying locations for secure sequestration of CO(2) in geological formations is one of our most pressing global scientific problems. Injection into basalt formations provides unique and significant advantages over other potential geological storage options, including large potential storage volumes and permanent fixation of carbon by mineralization. The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province ba...