Good methods of generating a random allocation sequence include using a randomnumbers table or a computer software program that generates the random sequence. There are manual methods of achieving random allocation such as tossing a coin, drawing lots or throwing dice. However, these manual methods in practice often become nonrandom, are difficult to implement and do not leave an audit trail. T...

This paper is referred to the experiences run at Iuav since 2004 in the framework of the EU-FSE founded Courses of Collaborative Composition. In these courses we built up some work/game thought as meaning of a distance collaborative game. Rally around these games, we delivered specific knowledge and portions of technical knowledge referred to the issue of formal structure, shape grammar, and co...

This paper presents an eficient technique for document page layout structure extraction and classification by analyzing the spatial configuration of the bounding boxes of different entities on the given image. The algorithm segments an image into a list of homogeneous zones.The classification algorithm labels each zone as text, table, line-drawing, halftone, ruling, or noise. The text-lines and...

In (1a) the verb is final in its main clause and must therefore occur in the disjoint form, marked by the prefix -la-. In (1b), the answer to the question in (1a), the verb occurs in the conjoint form, which lacks the -laprefix, since the verb is presupposed and ‘cigarettes’ is in focus. A table of Chibemba conjoint/disjoint forms is provided from Hyman & Watters (1948: 251) in (2) from Hyman &...

Data warehouses have become an instant phenomenon in many large organizations that deal with massive amounts of information. Drawing on the experiences from the systems development ®eld, we surmise that an effective design tool will enhance the success of warehouse implementations. Thus, we present a CASE tool designed to generate the SQL queries necessary to build a warehouse from a set of ope...

We report on recommendations to remove barriers to worldwide development of digital libraries, drawing upon an Aug. 2000 workshop involving researchers from the US and Korea who met at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. We present a summary table identifying application domains (e.g., education), institutions engaged in those applications, example activities, technical challenges, and possible...

We show that each quadrangulation on n vertices has a closed rectangle of influence drawing on the (n − 2) × (n − 2) grid. Further, we present a simple algorithm to obtain a straight-line drawing of a quadrangulation on the ⌈ n 2 ⌉ × ⌈ 3n 4 ⌉ grid. This is not optimal but has the advantage over other existing algorithms that it is not needed to add edges to the quadrangulation to make it 4-conn...