Dictionary lookup methods are popular in dealing with ambiguous letters which were not recognized by Optical Character Readers. However, a robust dictionary lookup method can be complex as apriori probability calculation or a large dictionary size increases the overhead and the cost of searching. In this context, Levenshtein distance is a simple metric which can be an effective string approxima...

In 2002, Peterson, et. al. proposed using redundant signal measurements to provide the necessary confidence that the cycles are identified correctly. The proposal used a weighted sum squared error (WSSE) statistic as a metric to determine if the correct cycle on every signal used has been selected with adequate probability. The method increases availability by using redundant information to pro...

Diffusion-weighted imaging coupled with tractography is the only method for in vivo mapping of human white-matter fascicles. Tractography takes diffusion measurements as input and produces a large collection of white-matter fascicles as output; the connectome. We introduce a method to evaluate the evidence supporting connectomes. Linear Fascicle Evaluation (LiFE) takes any connectome as input a...

Classifying an unknown input is a fundamental problem in pattern recognition. A common method is to define a distance metric between patterns and find the most similar pattern in the reference set. When patterns are in binary feature vector form, there have been two approaches to improve the performance over the equal-weighted Hamming distance metric. One is to give different weights to differe...

Stylometry is the study of the computational and mathematical properties of style. The aim of a stylometrist is to derive stylometrics and models based upon those metrics to quantitatively gauge stylistic propensities. This paper presents a method of formulating a stylistic distance function via a weighted ratio of lexical stylometrics, the higher the ratio the more the styles diverge. The coef...

x The problem received the title of 'Buridan's sheep.' The biological code was taken from a young merino sheep, by the Casparo-Karpov method, at a moment when the sheep was between two feeding troughs full of mixed fodder. This code, along with additional data about sheep in general, was fed into CODD. The machine was required: a) to predict which trough the merino would choose, and b) to give ...

A log del Pezzo surface is a projective surface with quotient singularities such that its anticanonical class is ample. Such surfaces arise naturally in many different contexts, for instance in connection with affine surfaces [Miyanishi81], moduli of surfaces of general type [Alexeev94], 3 and 4 dimensional minimal model program [Alexeev93]. They also provide a natural testing ground for existe...

The detection of community structure is a widely recognised method of revealing the underlying properties of complex networks in biological, physical and social sciences. The simplest form of the community structure problem is the partitioning of unweighted and undirected networks into disjoint communities. However, module detection in weighted networks or communities with overlapping modules m...