In the past few years there has been an impressive number of proposals for application-specific overlays or peerto-peer networks. However the procedure to bootstrap peers in those networks has remained an under-researched topic, typically left as an implementation detail. In this paper, we first study the performance of history lists, a common decentralised bootstrap mechanism used in P2P appli...

Under model correctness, highly accurate inference on a scalar interest parameter in the presence of a nuisance parameter can be achieved by several routes, among them considering the bootstrap distribution of the signed root likelihood ratio statistic. The context of model mis-specification is considered and inference based on a robust form of the signed root statistic is discussed in detail. ...

Xface, the new version of our open source, platform independent toolkit for developing 3D embodied conversational agents is presented. The toolkit currently incorporates four pieces of software. The core Xface library is for developers who want to embed 3D facial animation to their applications. XfaceEd editor provides an easy to use interface to generate MPEG-4 ready meshes from static 3D mode...

This report reviews several bootstrap methods with special emphasis on small sample properties. Only those bootstrap methods are covered which promise wide applicability. The small sample properties can be investigated analytically only in parametric bootstrap applications. Thus there is a strong emphasis on the latter although the bootstrap methods can be applied nonparametrically as well. The...

The bootstrap has made a fundamental impact on how we carry out statistical inference in problems without analytic solutions. This fact is illustrated with examples and comments that emphasize the parametric bootstrap and hypothesis testing.

Liouville field theory on an unoriented surface is investigated, in particular, the one point function on a RP2 is calculated. The constraint of the one point function is obtained by using the crossing symmetry of the two point function. There are many solutions of the constraint and we can choose one of them by considering the modular bootstrap. ∗E-mail: [email protected]

Condition monitoring of electrical power equipment has attracted considerable attention for many years. The aim of this paper is to use Labview with Fuzzy Logic controller to build a simulation system to diagnose transformer faults and monitor its condition. The front panel of the system was designed using LabVIEW to enable computer to act as customer-designed instrument. The dissolved gas-in-o...

Most compensation methods to improve the robustness of speech recognition systems in noisy environments such as spectral subtraction, CMN, and MVN, rely on the fact that noise and speech spectra are independent. However, the use of limited window in signal processing may introduce a cross-term between them, which deteriorates the speech recognition accuracy. To tackle this problem, we introduce...

Quantities with right-skewed distributions are ubiquitous in complex social systems, including political conflict, economics and social networks, and these systems sometimes produce extremely large events. For instance, the 9/11 terrorist events produced nearly 3000 fatalities, nearly six times more than the next largest event. But, was this enormous loss of life statistically unlikely given mo...

The Australian National Corpus has been established in an effort to make currently scattered and relatively inaccessible data available to researchers through an online portal. In contrast to other national corpora, it is conceptualised as a linked collection of many existing and future language resources representing language use in Australia, unified through common technical standards. This a...