We discuss the formation of technical standards platforms in industries with network externalities where firms are free to choose their degree of technical compatibility with competitors. In our model, firms choose affiliation to a technical standards coalition in the first stage of a game, and play an oligopoly game in the second stage. In adding itself to a technical standards coalition, a fi...

BACKGROUND A guide for the implementation of dental digital imaging reports was developed and validated through the International Standard of Health Informatics-Health Level Seven (HL7), achieving interoperability with an electronic system that keeps dental records. INTRODUCTION Digital imaging benefits patients, who can view previous close-ups of dental examinations; providers, because of gr...

background and aims. the use of fluoride mouthrinses has been proved to be one of the most effective ways to prevent tooth decay. a community based program using f+ rinse at school has also proved to be well-controlled and efficient. the aim of this investigation was to evaluate fluoride uptake level of a locally prepared naf rinse used in iran’s school program during 2005. materials and method...

Stochastic Local Search (SLS) algorithms for Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization Problems (MCOPs) typically involve the selection and parameterization of many algorithm components whose role with respect to their overall performance and relation to certain instance features is often not clear. This fact is becoming more problematic because of the recent trend in solving MCOPs that is givi...

The forming process parameters of Selective Laser Sintering(SLS) directly affect the forming efficiency and forming quality. Therefore, to determine reasonable process parameters is particularly important. In this paper, the weight of each target of the forming quality and efficiency is firstly calculated with the Analytic Hierarchy Process. And then the size of each target is measured by ortho...

[1] Prepared the CD-ROM versions of the Resource Management (PSI ) and Extended Resource Management (RM2) Corpora (a total of six discs) for use within the DARPA speech research community and for public distribution through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). These discs include the scoring software and statistical significance tools for benchmark performance assessment tests.

In this paper, we describe a rapid-prototyping approach to developing spoken language systems (SLSs). This new design methodology facilitates more usable and quickly implemented SLSs. Moreover, it allows SLS developers to address the delicate balance between designing dialogues that are sufficiently constraining to meet current speech recognition capabilities, yet feel natural and intuitive to ...

This session on corpora and evaluation was composed of two distinct parts. Before the break, four papers dealing with a range of important aspects of evaluation of written language systems and spoken language systems were presented. A printed version of each of these papers is included in the conference proceedings. After the break, a series of informal reports (not included as proceedings pape...

In this paper, we improve an existing scheme of detecting the copy-move forgery. The main difference between our method and prior arts is that we seek spatial correlation in the test image. Our method has 4 stages. In the first stage, we segment test image. In second stage, we find the suspicious pairs and group them into suspicious groups by their spatial correlation, and then find a transform...