Theological engagement with quantum mechanics has been dominated by the Copenhagen interpretation, failing to reflect fact that philosophers and physicists alike are increasingly moving away from interpretation in favor of other approaches. One such approach, Hugh Everett's so-called Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI), is being taken seriously. As MWI's credibility grows, it imperative metaphysic...

The purpose of data browsers is to help users identify and query data effectively without being overwhelmed by large complex graphs of data. A proposed solution to identify and query data in graph-based datasets is Pivoting (or set-oriented browsing), a many-to-many graph browsing technique that allows users to navigate the graph by starting from a set of instances followed by navigation throug...

The article describes a flexible mapping technique realized as a many-to-many dynamic mapping matrix. Digital sound generation is typically controlled by a large number of parameters and efficient and flexible mapping is necessary to provide expressive control over the instrument. The proposed modulation matrix technique may be seen as a generic and selfmodifying mapping mechanism integrated in...

This paper proposes two approaches to extract translation term pairs from Chinese-English bilingual corpus with more than 500,000 patents. One approach is precision-oriented, in which we compare six term alignment methods. Based on our experiments, we find that the EM (Expectation Maximization) method is the best. However, it is time-consuming and hard to extract many-to-many translations for t...

We propose a new multi-target tracking approach, which is able to reliably track multiple objects even with poor segmentation results due to noisy environments. The approach takes advantage of a new dual object model combining 2D and 3D features through reliability measures. In order to obtain these 3D features, a new classifier associates an object class label to each moving region (e.g. perso...

Peer-to-peer networks and other many-to-many relations have become popular especially for content transfer. To better understand and trust these types of networks, we need formally derived and verified models for them. Due to the large scale and heterogeneity of these networks, it may be difficult and cumbersome to create and analyse complete models. In this paper, we employ the modularisation ...

We propose an architecture called siamese autoencoders for extracting and switching pre-determined styles of speech signals while retaining the content. We apply this architecture to a voice conversion task in which we define the content to be the linguistic message and the style to be the speaker’s voice. We assume two or more data streams with the same content but unique styles. The architect...