In this paper two main topics are addressed. Firstly, the Local Boundary Detection Model (LBDM) is described; this computational model enables the detection of local boundaries in a melodic surface and can be used for musical segmentation. The proposed model is tested against the punctuation rule system developed by Friberg et al. (1998) at KTH, Stockholm. Secondly, the expressive timing deviat...

We investigate how children balance the quality of informants’ knowledge with the number of endorsements when deciding which of two boxes contains the better option. When group numbers are equal, children choose boxes endorsed by informants with visual access over informants with hearsay (Experiment 1), but are at chance when group size conflicts with quality of knowledge (Experiments 2 and 3)....

This paper presents a set of experiments we carried out recently with Divago, a system we have been developing and which has, as an underlying motivation, the goal of being a computational model of creativity. This model is expected to be able to generate novel concepts out of previous knowledge. Here we show its behaviour with a large dataset constructed independently by other researchers cons...

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in stance classification in online debates. Oftentimes, however, it is important to determine not only the stance expressed by an author in her debate posts, but also the reasons behind her supporting or opposing the issue under debate. We therefore examine the new task of reason classification in this paper. Given the close interplay between stance cl...

Virtualization tools have been used in computer network classes to provide a environment for practice experiments. Although some papers describe these tools and their technical benefits, they do not provide quantitative information about its effectiveness. This paper presents a proposal for systematic use of this category of tools in computer classes and a evaluation of use Netkit tool in compu...

On March 19-21, 1998, a workshop devoted to questions of the pomeron and the odderon in high energy scattering was held in Heidelberg. This note gives a personal account of some of the issues discussed at this workshop. Of course, misconceptions and misunderstandings are to be blamed on us, not on the other participants of the workshop. A puzzle of odderon physics is identified and a convenient...

In the past few decades, computational resources have become more powerful every year and in addition methodology development has led to much more efficient techniques through parallelization of the calculations and the advent of density functional theory. These reasons make it possible for computational quantum chemists to work on relatively large chemical systems with a total number of atoms ...

This paper considers the problem of scheduling n jobs in the generalized tardiness flow shop problem with m machines. Seven algorithms are developed for finding a schedule with minimum total tardiness of jobs in the generalized flow shop problem. Two simple rules, the shortest processing time (SPT), and the earliest due date (EDD) sequencing rules, are modified and employed as the core of seque...