this paper seeks to investigate a new definition for architecture by unifying the three vitruvian principles of firmitas, utilities, and venustas via a phenomenological approach in the interpretation and analysis of their role in defining architecture. the paper is composed in two main sections. the first section investigates the nature of architecture based on the mentioned principles, where a...

This article describes techniques of vocal forgery able to affect automatic speaker recognition system in a forensic context. Vocal forgery covers two main aspects: voice transformation and voice conversion. Concerning voice transformation, this article proposes an automatic analysis of four specific disguised voices in order to detect the forgery and, for voice conversion, different ways to au...

Systems within the agent-oriented paradigm range from ones where a single agent is coupled with an environment to ones inhabited by a large number of autonomous entities. In this paper, we look at what distinguishes single-agent systems from multi-agent systems. We claim that multi-agency implies limited coordination, in terms of action and/or information. If a team is characterized by full coo...

This study focuses in the impact of age-related intentional voice modification, or age disguise, on the performance of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems. The data collected for this study includes 60 native Finnish speakers (29 males, 31 females) with age range between 18 and 73 years. The corpus consist of two sessions of read speech per speaker. Our experiments demonstrate vulnerab...

This article investigates the disguise of Duke Vincentio in Measure for and that Earl Kent King Lear. It argues through their disguises downclassing, two characters transgress elite social position to maintain further power, control, status, authority. Their aims are geared towards benefiting themselves. M. C. Bradbrook relates a decrease Patrick Chura defines downclassing as experiencing harsh...

With the unit interval [0,1] as the truth value table, Chen and Wupresented the concept of  possibility computation over dcpos.Indeed, every possibility computation can be considered as a[0,1]-valued Scott open set on a dcpo. The aim of this paper is tostudy Chen-Wu's duality on quantale-valued setting. For clarity,with a commutative unital quantale $L$ as the truth value table, weintroduce a c...