Scripts, Languages, and Authority Control

Indigenous Scripts of African Languages

In Africa there are a number of languages. Some of these languages have their own indigenous scripts. In this paper we present script analysis for the indigenous scripts of African languages, with particular emphasis to Amharic language. Amharic is the official and working language of Ethiopia, which has its own writing system. This is the first attempt to analyze scripts of African language to...

More Accurate Fuzzy Text Search for Languages Using Abugida Scripts

Text search is a key step in any kind of information access. For doing it effectively, we can use knowledge about the concerned writing systems. Methods based on such knowledge can give significantly better results for searching text, at least for some languages. This can improve information retrieval in particular and information access in general. In this paper, we present a method for fuzzy ...

Access Control Policies and Languages Access Control Policies and Languages

Access control is the process of mediating every request to data and services maintained by a system and determining whether the request should be granted or denied. Expressiveness and flexibility are top requirements for an access control system together with, and usually in conflict with, simplicity and efficiency. In this paper, we discuss the main desiderata for access control systems and i...

Limited Authority Adaptive Flight Control

There were also many important (and enjoyable) discussions with co-workers at Georgia Tech that were essential for completing this work, including Hesham El-Scotte Hodel of Auburn, and John Kaneshige of NASA ARC. Finally, I want to thank my extraordinary wife Amy for all of her help and inspiration. She makes it all worthwhile.

Authority Control is Alive and ... Well ? Richard