W e propose an on-line writer verification method to improve the reliability of verifying a specific system user. In the proposed method, a different text including ordina y characters is used on eve y verification process. This text can be selected automatically by the verification system so as to reflect the specific writer's fentures. A specific writer is accepted only when the same text, wh...

A system for off-line handwritten text recognition is presented. It is characterized by a segmentation-free approach, i.e. whole lines of text are processed by the recognition module. The methods used for pre-processing, feature extraction, and statistical modelling are described, and several experiments on writer-independent, multiple writer, and single writer handwriting recognition tasks are...

This article outlines a theory of the development of writing expertise illustrated by a review of relevant research. An argument is made for two necessary (although not sufficient) components in the development of writing expertise: fluent language generation processes and extensive knowledge relevant to writing. Fluent language processes enable the developing writer (especially the young devel...

The purpose of the argumentative mode, sometimes called the persuasive mode, is to change the way a reader thinks or behaves. A writer achieves this purpose by convincing a reader of the truth and logic in a particular argument he or she is presenting in the essay. In order to be convincing, a writer should address more than one side of the argument in the essay. The writer will agree with one ...

Distributed shared memory (DSM) alleviates the need to program message passing explicitly on a distributed-memory machine. In order to reduce memory latency, a DSM replicates copies of data. This paper examines several current approaches to controlling thrashing caused by false sharing in a DSM. Then it introduces a novel memory consistency protocol, writer-owns , which detects and eliminates f...

I n this paper, we describe the handwritten character recognition adaptable to the writer. I t is efficient when the specific writer uses the same OCR for many characters. At the early stage, input characters are recognized using genera 1 dictionary, and then the correctly recognized character modify the dictionary to be adaptable to the variation of the characters of the specific writer. Using...

The purpose of the argumentative mode, sometimes called the persuasive mode, is to change the way a reader thinks or behaves. A writer achieves this purpose by convincing a reader of the truth and logic in a particular argument he or she is presenting in the essay. In order to be convincing, a writer should address more than one side of the argument in the essay. The writer will agree with one ...

The snapshot object is an important tool for constructing wait-free asynchronous algorithms. We relate the snapshot object to the lattice agreement decision problem. It is shown that any algorithm for solving lattice agreement can be transformed into an implementation of a snapshot object. The overhead cost of this transformation is only a linear number of operations on atomic single-writer mul...

Usually we assume large amount of data for writer identification, what if only little data is available, e.g., 1 page, 1 paragraph, or even 1 line? Several reasonable assumptions in forensics: • The writers are no longer available. • The writers might not be collaborative. The question is then: what can we do in this situation? • Use of synthetic data has been studies in fields like: signature ...