In this research project, we propose a model, the Harmony Graph, to decompose music into a social-network-like structure according to its harmonies. The whole Harmony Graph network represents the harmony progressions in music. The Harmony Graph is utilized to visualize, distinguish, and generate music for four prepared corpora using social network techniques. We experimented on different charac...

Color harmony is an important factor for image aesthetics assessment. Although plenty of color harmony theories are proposed by artists and scientists, there is little firm consensus and ambiguous definition amongst them, or even contradictory between them, which causes the existing theories infeasible for image aesthetics assessment. In order to overcome the problem of conventional color harmo...

This paper presents a Khmer typesetting system, based on TEX, METAFONT, and an ANSI-C filter. A 128-character of the -/-bit ASCII table for the Khmer script is proposed. Input of text is done phonically (using the spoken order consonantsubscript consonant-second subscript consonant-vowel-diacritic). The filter converts phonic description of consonantal clusters into a graphc T~Xnical descriptio...

Harmony is a concept that plays a pivotal role throughout Chinese history (Li, 2008 ) as much as love does in Christianity. Also similar to love in Christianity, much good as well as evil has been done in the name of harmony. It is important therefore to delineate the basic structure of this root metaphor in order to differentiate between optimal and suboptimal versions of harmony. This chapter...

P. Dube N. Halim K. Karenos M. Kim Z. Liu S. Parthasarathy D. Pendarakis H. Yang In this paper, we present Harmony, a holistic messaging middleware for distributed, event-driven systems. Harmony supports various communication paradigms and heterogeneous networks. The key novelty of Harmony is the unified provision of endto-end quality of service, security, and resiliency, which shields the appl...

Under the Bayesian Ying–Yang (BYY) harmony learning theory, a harmony function has been developed on a BI-directional architecture of the BYY system for Gaussian mixture with an important feature that, via its maximization through a general gradient rule, a model selection can be made automatically during parameter learning on a set of sample data from a Gaussian mixture. This paper further pro...