So this small package arrives at my office, addressed to “Anniken Goldstein.” Two Goldsteins work in my office, my Bride/Empress and myself, so she took the liberty of opening it up, and extracting a Darth Vader head coffee cup from a carefully bundled straw package. There was no accompanying note; the return address indicated that none was needed. Everyone from my receptionist to my office man...

Musical melodies contain hierarchically organized events, where some events are more salient than others, acting as melodic landmarks. In Hindustani music melodies, an important landmark is the occurrence of a nyās. Occurrence of nyās is crucial to build and sustain the format of a rāg and mark the boundaries of melodic motifs. Detection of nyās segments is relevant to tasks such as melody segm...

The Lagrangian relaxation strategy (or dualization) is one of the most important methodologies of optimization for solving structured large-scale mathematical programming problems. The line search procedure is very often encountered in solving the dual problem by using some ascent algorithm, such as a bundle algorithm, or an interior point algorithm, etc.. The existing line search methods, for ...