Extraction of some meta-information from printed documents without doing OCR is considered. It can be statistically verified that important terms in technical articles are mostly printed in italic, bold and all capital style. A quick approach of detecting them is proposed here. The approach is...

The greytone lithography technique is extended to include the concept of pixellated microstructure arrays defined by a palette of a finite number of 3D greytone pixel elements. Also discussed is a picture mapping process that enables the greytone pixels to be positioned at pre-defined locations...

In this paper we propose a type-based framework for using logic programming for XML processing. We transform XML documents into terms and DTDs into regular types. We implemented a standard type inference algorithm for logic programs and use the types corresponding to the DTDs as additional type...

One of the important reasons for poor recognition rate in optical character recognition (OCR) system is the error in character segmentation. Existence of touching characters in the scanned documents is a major problem to design an effective character segmentation procedure. In this paper, a new...

Several investigators of EEG time series reported a rejection of the null hypothesis of a linear stochastic system for epochs longer than 10s. We investigate whether this rejection of the null hypothesis is related to nonlinearity or non-stationarity. Our approach is a combination of...

IP networks are traditionally designed to support a best-effort service, with no guarantees on the reliable and timely delivery of packets. With the migration of real-time applications such as voice onto IP-based platforms, the existing IP network capabilities become inadequate to provide the...

e-Business is the complex fusion of business processes, enterprise applications, and organizational structure necessary to create a high-performance business model. The message is simple: Without transition to an e-business foundation, e-commerce cannot be executed effectively. In this paper, we...

New interaction paradigms such as Ubiquitous Computing or Augmented Reality are emerging. We believe that it is evident that the change of paradigm has to suppose a change in the design methodology of these future interactive systems. The purpose of this paper is to present our proposal about...

We propose a general-purpose method for finding high-quality solutions to hard optimization problems, inspired by self-organizing processes often found in nature. The method, called , successively eliminates extremely undesirable components of sub-optimal solutions. Drawing upon models used to...

We propose a reliable method for automatic counting of cells in brain sections for different antibodies (NeuN, parvalbumin, GABA and c-Fos) and nissl-staining. The images of thin stained sections are binarized by thresholding. Then regions are clustered using a common clustering algorithm. After...