In a context where information retrieval is extended to spoken “documents” including conversations, it will be important to provide users with the ability to seek informational content, rather than socially motivated small talk that appears in many conversational sources. In this paper we present a preliminary study aimed at automatically identifying “irrelevance” in the domain of telephone con...

The problem of evaluating the sign of the determinant of a small matrix arises in many geometric algorithms. Given an n × n matrix A with integer entries, whose columns are all smaller than M in Euclidean norm, the algorithm given here evaluates the sign of the determinant detA exactly. The algorithm requires an arithmetic precision of less than 1.5n+2 lgM bits. The number of arithmetic operati...

A restarted Arnoldi algorithm is given that computes eigenvalues and eigenvectors. It is related to implicitly restarted Arnoldi, but has a simpler restarting approach. Harmonic and regular RayleighRitz versions are possible. For multiple eigenvalues, an approach is proposed that first computes eigenvalues with the new harmonic restarted Arnoldi algorithm, then uses random restarts to determine...

A robust state feedback design subject to placement of the closed loop eigenvalues in a prescribed region of unit circle is presented. Quantitative measures of robustness and disturbance rejection are investigated. A stochastic optimization algorithm is used to effect trade-off between the free design parameters and to accomplish all the design criteria. A numerical example is given to illustra...

In this paper, a novel method based on a combination of Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) with Self-adaptive Differential Evolution (SaDE) algorithm to estimate rotor position, speed and machine states for a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) is proposed. In the proposed method, as a first step SaDE algorithm is used to tune the noise covariance matrices of state noise and measurement noise i...

nowadays with increasing use of numerous nonlinear loads, voltage and current harmonics in power systems are one of the most important problems power engineers encounter. many of these nonlinear loads, because of their dynamic natures, inject time-varying harmonics into power system. common techniques applied for harmonics measurement and assessment such as fft have significant errors in presen...