This paper describes an effective on-line polymer characterization technique by using small-angle light-scattering (SALS) image processing software and wavelet analysis. The phenomenon of small-angle light scattering has been applied to give information about transparent structures on morphology. Real-time visualization of various scattered light image and light intensity matrices is performed ...

This chapter is concerned with the possibility of accounting for word order and word order variation in terms of complexity. I propose that it is useful to consider word order variation in terms of competing constructions, where other things being equal, the less complex construction is preferred by speakers. This view of variation presupposes that we have a way of measuring complexity. I sugge...

Natural language interfaces to computers must deal with wide variation in real-world input. This paper proposes that, in order to handle real-world input robustly, a natural language interface should be constructed in accord with principles of integrated processing: processing syntax and semantics at the same time, processing syntax and semantics using the same mechanisms, and processing langua...

We present ongoing work in linguistic processing of hashtags in Twitter text, with the goal of supplying normalized hashtag content to be used in more complex natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Hashtags represent collectively shared topic designators with considerable surface variation that can hamper semantic interpretation. Our normalization scripts allow for the lexical consolidation a...

Guaranteed tuple processing has become critically important for many streaming applications. This paper describes how we enabled IBM Streams, an enterprise-grade stream processing system, to provide data processing guarantees. Our solution goes from language-level abstractions to a runtime protocol. As a result, with a couple of simple annotations at the source code level, IBM Streams developer...

This paper describes an on-going work focused on using Adaptive Reservations to cope with unpredictabilities due to the interrupt processing times in real-time kernels. Using this approach, the execution time stolen by interrupt processing is modeled as a variation in the application execution times, and an adaptive scheduling mechanism automatically compensates its effects.