The literature contains many investigations dealing with questions concerning familes of nonoverlapping sets. Even so, the recent paper [1] by E. Friedman introduces an apparently new type of interesting problems. In order to formulate them we need some definitions. Throughout the paper, without additional mention, we shall assume that each family C considered consist of a finite number of nono...

Recognition of Indian language scripts is a challenging problem. Work for the development of complete OCR systems for Indian language scripts is still in infancy. Complete OCR systems have recently been developed for Devanagri and Bangla scripts. Research in the field of recognition of Telugu script faces major problems mainly related to the touching and overlapping of characters. Segmentation ...