Two approaches are employed to deal with false sharing in software DSMs. Although single-writer is simple, it causes the ping-pong effect of the data page thrashing. In other hand, multiple-writer approach, which is eeective in re-duing the amount of page transfer, suuers from the high cost. This paper proposes a new approach to handle multiple writers in software DSMs called limited multiple-w...

In this communication we propose an approach for the writer verification task. The difficulty of this task lies first, in the decision making between the two assumptions which model the problem: "Do the two writings come from the same writer ?" or "Do the two writings come from different writers?" and second, in the evaluation of the error risk associated to this decision. We have called upon a...

JAYASHREE SUBRAHMONIA IBM T.J. Watson Research, P.O. Box 218 / Route 134, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, U. S. A. E-mail: [email protected] This paper addresses the problem of improving the performance of an online, writer-independent, large-vocabulary, unconstrained, handwriting recognition system by clustering writers with similar writing styles. Recognition performance is enhanced by identify...