There is a strong tendency among MT researchers to emphasize paradigmatic differences inMT approaches. This often leads to energetic criticism of competing systems, but obscures the fact thatmany techniques developed within a particular paradigm can improve the quality of MT systems in general. In this paper we show how practical MT development must move beyond dogmatic dismissal of differing a...

consider the random walk among n places with n(n - 1)/2 transports. we attach an exponential random variable xij to each transport between places pi and pj and take these random variables mutually independent. if transports are possible or impossible independently with probability p and 1-p, respectively, then we give a lower bound for the distribution function of the smallest path at point log...

sudden fracture is one of the major failure modes in brittle materials. plexiglass (polymethyl methacrylate) is a well known brittle polymer, widely used in various industries. many types of notches, particularly v-shaped notches, are sometimes used in the components made of plexiglass. these notches can dramatically decrease the load bearing capacity of components due to the concentration of s...

Musical analysis from score, particularly of structural principles used by the composer, is an area fraught with potential errors caused by conjecture and interpretation. Analysis of music composed using a computer patching language may, alternatively, provide a far more reliable document of a composer’s methods. This paper examines a small number of patches created using Miller Puckette’s Pure...