While many applications export data in hierarchical formats like XML and JSON, it is often necessary to convert such hierarchical documents to a relational representation. This paper presents a novel programming-by-example approach, and its implementation in a tool called Mitra, for automatically migrating tree-structured documents to relational tables. We have evaluated the proposed technique ...

We point out an elementary thermodynamics fact that whenever the specific heat of a system is negative, the speed of sound in such a media is imaginary. The latter observation presents a proof of Gubser-Mitra conjecture on the relation between dynamical and thermodynamic instabilities for gravitational backgrounds with a translationary invariant horizon, provided such geometries can be interpre...

Recently, an image compression algorithm based on the warped discrete cosine transform has been proposed (Cho and Mitra, IEEE Trans Circuits Systems Video Technol 10 (8) (2000) 1364). The algorithm outperforms JPEG, especially for images with high frequency contents and compound images consisting of picture and text. In this paper, we improve the compression performance by optimizing the parame...

We reinterpret recent work on extremal ReissnerNordstrøm black holes to argue that the mass is a measure of the gravitational entropy. We also find that the entropy of scalar fields in this background has a stronger divergence than usual. e-mail [email protected] e-mail [email protected], [email protected]

A connectionist inferencing network, based on a fuzzy version of Kohonen’s model already developed by the authors, is proposed. It is capable of handling uncertainty and/or impreciseness in the input representation provided in quantitative, linguistic and/or set forms. The output class membership value of an input pattern is inferred by the trained network. A measure of certainty expressing con...