Online automatic recognition of handwritten text has been an ongoing research problem for four decades. It is used in automated postal address and ZIP code and form reading, data acquisition in bank checks, processing ...

Articulated figure animation receives particular attention of the computer graphics society. The techniques for animation of articulated figures range from simple interpolation between keyframes methods to motion-capture ...

A cellular pathway can be defined briefly as a readable abstraction of events by human happening in the cell. With the PATIKA project, our aim was to model and store vast amount of cellular pathway data in a centralized ...

Graph layout has become an important area of research in Computer Science for the last couple of decades. There is a wide range of applications for graph layout including data structures, databases, software engineering, ...

The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval systems (search engines) requires a test collection composed of a set of documents, a set of query topics and a set of relevance judgments indicating ...

In this thesis study, a framework is proposed and implemented for the realistic rendering of a multi-layered human body model while it is moving. The proposed human body model is composed of three layers: a skeleton ...

The inverted index partitioning problem is investigated for parallel text retrieval systems. The objective is to perform efficient query processing on an inverted index distributed across a PC cluster. Alternative ...

Mobility prediction is one of the most essential issues that need to be explored for mobility management in mobile computing systems. In this thesis, we propose a new algorithm for predicting the next inter-cell movement ...

The enhancements in genomic studies have given birth to the necessity of advanced techniques for storing, integrating and analyzing the accumulated data regarding molecular level cellular processes. Since this data is ...