This study is concerned with the perceptual relevance of regressive vowel harmony in French. Two experiments were conducted. The first experiment showed that acoustic variations in a non-final vowel depending on the final vowel can be detected by listeners. The second experiment revealed that vowel harmony can facilitate the identification of the final vowel. Implications for current models of ...

Regression test is an effective means to ensure the quality of software. But the test efficiency will become lower and lower as the test case library becomes increasingly large in the test. Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency and quality of regression test, it is necessary to implement the test case safety reduction. The optimization selection of the test case is an effective means of...

The HARMONY architecture [2] provides mechanisms for management of network and compute resources in a mobile computing environment. In HARMONY network resources are reserved based on the Entropy Model [7], and compute guarantees are provided by off-loading tasks from the mobile units to compute servers in the backbone network. A load-balancing scheme redistributes loads across all compute serve...

This paper presents the use of the improved harmony search method for solving economic load dispatch problems. The harmony search method mimics a jazz improvisation process by musicians in order to seek a fantastic state of harmony. To assess the searching performance of the proposed method, a six-unit thermal generating system acquired from the standard IEEE 30-bus test system was challenged. ...

In Bijagó (Wilson 2000), an asymmetrical vowel system contributes to irregular patterns of vowel harmony that seem to challenge the classificatory powers of some lexical indexation models of exceptionality (e.g. Finley 2009, 2010). In this paper, I develop a set of theoretically-independent exceptionality criteria, which when applied to an analysis of Bijagó reveal that a set of exceptional und...

Harmony is a fundamental attribute of music. Close connections exist between music and mathematics since both pursue harmony and unity. In music, the consonance of notes played simultaneously partly determines our perception of harmony; associates with aesthetic responses; and influences the emotion expression. The consonance could be considered as a window to understand and analyze harmony. He...

This paper proposes a Pareto-based grouping discrete harmony search algorithm (PGDHS) to solve the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP). Two objectives, namely the maximum completion time (makespan) and the mean of earliness and tardiness, are considered simultaneously. Firstly, two novel heuristics and several existing heuristics are employed to initialize the harmony me...

In recent years a lot of novel (mostly naturally inspired) search heuristics have been proposed. Among those approaches is Harmony Search. After its introduction in 2000, positive results and improvements over existing approaches have been reported. In this paper, the authors give a review of the developments of Harmony Search during the past decade and perform a rigorous analysis of this appro...

Optimality Theory (OT) requires an algorithm optimising the Harmony function on the set of candidates. Simulated annealing, a well-known heuristic technique for combinatorial optimisation, has been argued to be an empirically adequate solution to this problem. In order to generalise simulated annealing for a non-real valued Harmony function, two representations of a violation profile are propos...

In exemplar models of phonology, phonotactic constraints are modeled as emergent from patterns of high activation between units that co-occur with statistical regularity, or as patterns of low activation or inhibition between units that cooccur less frequently or not at all. Exemplar models posit no a priori formal or representational properties to the phonological units or sound patterns that ...