An elementary yet remarkable similarity between the Cole-Hopf transformation relating the Burgers and heat equation and Miura's transformation connecting the KdV and mKdV equations is studied in detail. 1. Introduction Our aim in this note is to display the close similarity between the well-known Cole{Hopf transformation relating the Burgers and the heat equation, and the celebrated Miura trans...

Title of dissertation: A FEATURE-BASED SHAPE SIMILARITY ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK Antonio Cardone, Ph.D., 2005 Directed by: Associate Professor Satyandra K. Gupta, Department of Mechanical Engineering The popularity of 3D CAD systems is resulting in a large number of CAD models being generated. Availability of these CAD models is opening up new ways in which information can be archived, analyzed, an...

In recent years the interest in melodic similarity has mushroomed mainly due to the increased importance of music information retrieval (MIR). A great number of similarity models and algorithms have been developed, but little or no attention has been paid to cognitive or perceptual aspects to the issue at hand. Questions, about the relevant parameters and the appropriate implementation are unde...

This paper involves a cloud computing environment in which the dataowner outsource the similarity search service to a third party service provider. Privacy of the outsourced data is important because they may be confidential data. The data should be made available to the authorized client groups, but not to be revealed to the service provider in which the data is stored. Given this scenario, th...