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Abstract In the Europe 2020 strategy in area of smart growth one flagship initiatives is Digital Agenda for Europe. Implementation this initiative will lead to wide-availability ICT solutions society. Young people belonging Generation Y most often treat computer as a natural household equipment. Regular use Internet very popular among them. They increasingly mobile field ICT. The intelligent in...

The object-oriented access control in contemporary middleware is inadequate in view of the sensitivity of data stored on the internet and the growing threat from hackers and malicious software. In this paper we present the Opsis system, an architecture for distributed Java applications based on the strict use of ‘bracket capabilities’. We describe the concept of ‘capability servers’ for support...

Off-line recognition of text plays a significant role in several applications, such as cheque verification and mail sorting. However, the selection of the technique for feature extraction remains a big challenging step for achieving high recognition accuracy. This paper presents an efficient handwritten digit recognition system based on HOG to capture the discriminative features of digit image....

In this paper we present a stochastic framework for the recognition of binary random patterns which advantageously combine hmms and Markov random elds (mrfs). The hmm component of the model analyzes the image along one direction, in a speci c state observation probability given by the product of causal mrf-like pixel conditional probabilities. Aspects concerning de nition, training and recognit...

This paper describes the combination of Shamir secret sharing method with the trap door characteristics of discrete logarithm mod a large prime number as employed in the Diffie-Hellman exchange scheme. The purpose of this combination is to protect the privacy of the numbers held by the parties of the shared secret, while at the same time authorizing them to broadcast data in the clear which whe...

This paper describes a system being developed to recognize date information handwritten on Canadian bank cheques. A segmentation based strategy is adopted in this system. In order to achieve high performances in terms of efficiency and reliability, a knowledge-based module is proposed for the date segmentation and a cursive month word recognition module is implemented based on a combination of ...

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In his recent speech to the Conservative Party conference the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, used statistics enthusiastically. I counted at least 27 times that he mentioned numerical data. And he made several more assertions about numbers, such as, “Safer care doesn’t cost more; it costs less.” Not bad for a speech of 23 minutes. He used statistics to take credit on behalf of his government for...