We propose an English-Chinese name transliteration system using a maximum N-gram Hidden Markov Model. To handle special challenges with alphabet-based and characterbased language pair, we apply a two-phase transliteration model by building two HMM models, one between English and Chinese Pinyin and another between Chinese Pinyin and Chinese characters. Our model improves traditional HMM by assig...

In a classical work of the 1950’s, Lee and Yang proved that for fixed nonnegative temperature, the zeros of the partition functions of a ferromagnetic Ising model always lie on the unit circle in the complex magnetic field. Zeros of the partition function in the complex temperature were then considered by Fisher, when the magnetic field is set to zero. Limiting distributions of Lee-Yang and of ...

In a classical work of the 1950’s, Lee and Yang proved that for fixed nonnegative temperature, the zeros of the partition functions of a ferromagnetic Ising model always lie on the unit circle in the complex magnetic field. Zeros of the partition function in the complex temperature were then considered by Fisher, when the magnetic field is set to zero. Limiting distributions of Lee-Yang and of ...

A Two-phase model for configuring a cellular manufacturing system is proposed. In phase (I), for the first time, number of cells is considered as a decision variable. In phase (II), pursing two different objectives, one minimization of underload and the other, maximization of similarity of parts within a group, the design procedure is performed. As one cannot have these two objects together, a ...

the microstructure of dual phase steels can be considered as a matrix of ferrite phase reinforced by martensite particles. recent measurements show that the mechanical properties of the ferrite phase are changed with the distance from the martensite grains. in this paper, a new method has been proposed to consider this phenomenon in finite element modeling of dual phase steels microstructure. i...

A previously introduced two phase model was used to assess its capability in predicting the behavior of reinforced soil walls under working stress conditions. The two phase model is a homogenization method based on the virtual work theorem. The reinforced soil medium is considered as the superposition of two continuous phases, the reinforcement and matrix phases that interact within the medium....

Topology changes in multi-phase fluid flows are difficult to model within a traditional sharp interface theory. Diffuse interface models turn out to be an attractive alternative to model two-phase flows. Based on a Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokes model introduced by Abels, Garcke and Grün (Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 2012), which uses a volume averaged velocity, we derive a diffuse interface mo...

After Miller’s original algorithm for the Tate pairing computation, many improved algorithms have been suggested, to name just a few, by Galbraith et al. and Barreto et al., especially for the fields with characteristic three. Also Duursma and Lee found a closed formula of the Tate pairing computation for the fields with characteristic three. In this paper, we show that a similar argument is al...

In this paper the benefits of implementation of the Tate pairing computation in dedicated hardware are discussed. The main observation lies in the fact that arithmetic architectures in the extension field GF (3) are good candidates for parallelization, leading to a similar calculation time in hardware as for operations over the base field GF (3). Using this approach an architecture for the hard...

We apply the Yang-Lee theory of phase transitions to an urn model for the separation of sand. The effective partition function of this nonequilibrium system can be expressed as a polynomial of the size-dependent effective fugacity z. Numerical calculations show that in the thermodynamic limit the zeros of the effective partition function are located on the unit circle in the complex z plane. In...