Volume 21, Number 1, February 2007

Special Issue: Advances in Graphonomics for Handwriting Analysis and Recognition

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  Angelo Marcelli, Claudio De Stefano: Editorial. 1-4
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  Hala Bezine, Mehdi Kefi, Adel M. Alimi: On the BÊta-Elliptic Model for the Control of the Human Arm Movement. 5-19
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  Moussa Djioua, Réjean Plamondon, Antonio Della Cioppa, Angelo Marcelli: Deterministic and Evolutionary Extraction of Delta-Lognormal Parameters: Performance Comparison. 21-41
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  Claudio De Stefano, Ciro D'Elia, Alessandra Scotto di Freca, Angelo Marcelli: Incorporating a Wavelet Transform into a Saliency-Based Method for Online Handwriting Segmentation. 43-59
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  Ralph Niels, Louis Vuurpijl, Lambert Schomaker: Automatic Allograph Matching in Forensic Writer Identification. 61-81
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  Marcus Liwicki, Horst Bunke: Handwriting Recognition of Whiteboard Notes - Studying the Influence of Training Set Size and Type. 83-98
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  Harold Mouchère, Éric Anquetil, Nicolas Ragot: Writer Style Adaptation in Online Handwriting Recognizers by a Fuzzy Mechanism Approach: the Adapt Method. 99-116
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  Émilie Caillault, Christian Viard-Gaudin: Mixed Discriminant Training of Hybrid ANN/HMM Systems for Online Handwritten Word Recognition. 117-134
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  Cinthia Obladen de Almendra Freitas, Luiz S. Oliveira, Flávio Bortolozzi, Simone B. K. Aires: Handwritten Character Recognition Using Nonsymmetrical Perceptual Zoning. 135-155
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  Luigi P. Cordella, Claudio De Stefano, Francesco Fontanella: Evolutionary Prototyping for Handwriting Recognition. 157-178

Volume 21, Number 2, March 2007

Special Issue: Personalization Techniques and Recommender Systems

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  Gulden Uchyigit, Matthew Y. Ma: Editorial. 179-181
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  Barry Smyth: Adaptive Information Access: Personalization and Privacy. 183-205
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  Fabio Gasparetti, Alessandro Micarelli: Personalized Search Based on a Memory Retrieval Theory. 207-224
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  Hilary J. Holz, Katja Hofmann, Catherine Reed: Unobtrusive User Modeling for Adaptive Hypermedia. 225-244
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  Katerina Kabassi, Maria Virvou, George A. Tsihrintzis: Web Services User Model Server Performing Decision Making. 245-264
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  Shlomo Berkovsky, Yaniv Eytani, Larry M. Manevitz: Efficient Collaborative Filtering in Content-Addressable Spaces. 265-289
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  Josephine Griffith, Colm O'Riordan, Humphrey Sorensen: Identifying User and Group Information from Collaborative Filtering Datasets. 291-310
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  Nikos Manouselis, Constantina Costopoulou: Experimental Analysis of Design Choices in multiattribute Utility Collaborative Filtering. 311-331
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  Alexander Felfernig, Erich Teppan, Bartosz Gula: Knowledge-Based Recommender Technologies for Marketing and Sales. 333-354
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  Markus Franke, Andreas Geyer-Schulz: Using Restricted Random Walks for Library Recommendations and Knowledge Space Exploration. 355-373
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  Jingbo Zhu, Matthew Y. Ma, Jinhong Katherine Guo, Zhenxing Wang: Content Classification and Recommendation Techniques for Viewing Electronic Programming Guide on a Portable Device. 375-395
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  Yolanda Blanco-Fernández, José J. Pazos Arias, Alberto Gil-Solla, Manuel Ramos Cabrer, Martín López Nores, Jorge García Duque, Ana Fernández Vilas, Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo, Jesús Bermejo Muñoz: Avatar: Enhancing the Personalized Television by Semantic Inference. 397-421
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  Gulden Uchyigit, Keith L. Clark: A New Feature Selection Method for Text Classification. 423-438

Volume 21, Number 3, May 2007

Papers: Intelligent Techniques and Pattern Recognition

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  Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox, Peter J. Taylor, Gilda Catalano: Pattern Recognition in Large Geographical Databases: towards a Detailed Assessment of the World City Network. 439-462

Papers: Pattern Recognition

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  Syed Rahat Abbas, Muhammad Arif: Modified Nearest Neighbor Method for Multistep Ahead Time Series Forecasting. 463-481
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  Xichen Sun, QianSheng Cheng, Jufu Feng: From penalized Maximum Likelihood to Cluster Analysis: a Unified Probabilistic Framework of Clustering. 483-490

Correspondence: Intelligent Techniques and Pattern Recognition

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  Ramin Halavati, Saeed Bagheri Shouraki: Recognition of Persian Online Handwriting Using Elastic Fuzzy Pattern Recognition. 491-513

Correspondence: Pattern Recognition

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  Eric C. C. Tsang, S. S. Qiu, Daniel S. Yeung: Convergence Analysis of a Discrete Hopfield Neural Network with Delay and its Application to Knowledge Refinement. 515-541
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  Bin Wang, Yan Qiu Chen: An Invariant Shape Representation: interior Angle Chain. 543-559

Correspondence: Image Processing

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  Dongsheng Zhang, Ashok Samal, James R. Brandle: A Method for Estimating Fractal Dimension of Tree Crowns from Digital Images. 561-572

Correspondence: Image Registration

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  Dongjiang Xu, Takis Kasparis: A Hybrid and Hierarchical Approach to Aerial Image Registration. 573-590

Correspondence: Imaging Technology and Pattern Recognition

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  Shuyuan Jin, Daniel S. Yeung, Xizhao Wang: Internet Anomaly Detection Based on Statistical Covariance Matrix. 591-606

Volume 21, Number 4, June 2007

Special Issue: Active Media Technology for Intelligent IT

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  Yuefeng Li, Ning Zhong: Editorial. 607-609
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  Shiwu Zhang, Jiming Liu: Autonomy-Oriented Social Networks Modeling: Discovering the Dynamics of Emergent Structure and Performance. 611-638
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  Jia Hu, Ning Zhong, Yong Shi: Developing Mining-Grid Centric E-Finance Portals for Risk Management and Decision Making. 639-658
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  Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li: Mining Non-Redundant Association Rules Based on Concise Bases. 659-675
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  Longbing Cao, Chengqi Zhang: The Evolution of KDD: towards Domain-Driven Data Mining. 677-692
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  Jigui Sun, Huawen Liu, Changsong Qi: A Multistage Rule Induction Algorithm in Classification. 693-708
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  Zili Zhang, Yanhui Zhou: A Fuzzy Logic Based Approach for Software Testing. 709-722
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  Richi Nayak, Tien Tran: A Progressive Clustering Algorithm to Group the XML Data by Structural and Semantic Similarity. 723-743
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  Hui Wang: Subsequence Counting as a Measure of Similarity for Sequences. 745-758
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  Heungkyu Lee, June Kim: Modified quantile Based Online Noise Adaptation Method for a Robust Speech Recognition Interface. 759-772
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  Raymond Y. K. Lau, Yuefeng Li, Sheng-Tang Wu, Xujuan Zhou: Sequential Pattern Mining and Nonmonotonic Reasoning for Intelligent Information Agents. 773-789
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  Changsong Qi, Jigui Sun: Model Net: a Representation of the Static Structure of Modelbase. 791-807

Volume 21, Number 5, August 2007

Papers: Feature Selection

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  Lior Rokach, Barak Chizi, Oded Maimon: A Methodology for Improving the Performance of Non-Ranker Feature Selection Filters. 809-830

Papers: Skin Detection

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  Wei-Che Chen, Ming-Shi Wang: Region-Based and Content Adaptive Skin Detection in Color Images. 831-853

Papers: Eye Tracking

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  Arantxa Villanueva, Rafael Cabeza, Sonia Porta: Gaze Tracking System Model Based on Physical Parameters. 855-877

Papers: Image Processing

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  Ching-Nung Yang, Tse-Shih Chen: Extended Visual Secret Sharing Schemes: Improving the Shadow Image Quality. 879-898

Papers: Machine Learning

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  Bo Yang, Xiaohong Su, Yadong Wang: Distributed Learning Strategy Based on Chips for Classification with Large-Scale Dataset. 899-920

Correspondence: Pattern Recognition

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  Christian Gagné, Marc Parizeau: Coevolution of Nearest Neighbor Classifiers. 921-946

Correspondence: Feature Extraction

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  Yue Lu, Chunyun Xiao, Chew Lim Tan: Constructing Area Voronoi Diagram Based on Direct Calculation of the Freeman Code of Expanded Contours. 947-960

Correspondence: Support Vector Machine

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  XuLei Yang, Qing Song, Yue Wang: A Weighted Support Vector Machine for Data Classification. 961-976

Volume 21, Number 6, September 2007

Papers: Computer Vision

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  Stephen J. Maybank: The Fisher-rao Metric for Lines in a Convex Image. 977-994

Papers: Feature Extraction and Pattern Recognition

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  Wai-Tak Wong, Frank Y. Shih, Te-Feng Su: Shape-Based Image Retrieval Using Two-Level Similarity Measures. 995-1015

Papers: Face Recognition

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  Myung-Cheol Roh, Seong-Whan Lee: Performance Analysis of Face Recognition Algorithms on Korean Face Database. 1017-1033

Papers: Character Recognition

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  Rui Zhang, Xiaoqing Ding, Hailong Liu: Discriminative Training Based Quadratic Classifier for Handwritten Character Recognition. 1035-1046

Correspondence: Pattern Recognition and Medical Image Application

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  Mouloud Adel, Daniel Zuwala, Monique Rasigni, Salah Bourennane: Enhancement of Mammographic Phantom Features by Noise Reduction. 1047-1057

Correspondence: Face Recognition

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  Huiyuan Wang, Zengfeng Wang, Yan Leng, Xiaojuan Wu, Qing Li: Pca Plus F-LDA: a New Approach to Face Recognition. 1059-1068

Correspondence: Biometrics and Pattern Recognition

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  Bon-Woo Hwang, Sungmin Kim, Seong-Whan Lee: A Full-Body Gesture Database for Human Gesture Analysis. 1069-1084

Correspondence: Feature Extraction

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  Fengxi Song, David Zhang, Yong Xu, Jizhong Wang: Five New Feature Selection Metrics in Text Categorization. 1085-1101

Volume 21, Number 7, November 2007

Papers: Pattern Recognition

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  Anil Kumar Ghosh, Smarajit Bose: Feature Extraction for Classification Using Statistical Networks. 1103-1126

Papers: Face Recognition

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  Haijing Wang, Peihua Li, Tianwen Zhang: Boosted Gaussian Classifier with Integral Histogram for Face Detection. 1127-1139

Papers: Finger Print Recognition

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  Xuefeng Liang, Arijit Bishnu, Tetsuo Asano: A Combinatorial Approach to Fingerprint Binarization and Minutiae Extraction Using Euclidean Distance Transform. 1141-1158

Correspondence: Texture Recognition

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  Domènec Puig, Miguel Angel García: Pixel-Based Texture Classification by Integration of Multiple Feature Extraction Methods Evaluated over Multisized Windows. 1159-1170

Correspondence: Pattern Segmentation

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  Yun Wen Chen, Yan Qiu Chen: Adaptive Image Segmentation Using Artificial Co-Evolving Tribes. 1171-1193

Correspondence: Image Segmentation

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  Wang Wei, Yang Xin: A Modified Multiphase Level Set Evolution Scheme for Aerial Image Segmentation. 1195-1212

Correspondence: Feature Extraction

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  Nojun Kwak: Feature Extraction Based on Direct Calculation of Mutual Information. 1213-1231

Correspondence: Wavelet and Feature Extraction

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  Guangyi Chen, W. F. Xie: Contour-Based Feature Extraction Using Dual-Tree Complex Wavelets. 1233-1245

Volume 21, Number 8, December 2007

Special Issue: Intelligent Perception and Classification

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  Frank Hung-Fat Leung, Lauren Lai-Wan Chan: Editorial. 1247-1248
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  Bernardete Ribeiro, Amândio Marques, Jorge Henriques, Manuel Antunes: Choosing Real-Time Predictors for Ventricular Arrhythmia Detection. 1249-1263
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  Jun Liu, Songcan Chen, Xiaoyang Tan, Daoqiang Zhang: Efficient Pseudoinverse Linear Discriminant Analysis and its Nonlinear Form for Face Recognition. 1265-1278
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  Zenglin Xu, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu: Feature Selection Based on Minimum Error minimax Probability Machine. 1279-1292
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  Woong-Jae Won, Jiyoung Yeo, Sang-Woo Ban, Minho Lee: Biologically Motivated Incremental Object Perception Based on Selective Attention. 1293-1305
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  Qi Zhang, Ken Mogi: Representation of 3-d Volumetric Object from the pantomime Effect and Shading Cues in Human Brain. 1307-1322
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  Jun-Ki Min, Sung-Bae Cho: Multiple Decision Templates with Adaptive Features for Fingerprint Classification. 1323-1338
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  Zhiyong Liu, Hong Qiao, Lei Xu: Investigation on Multisets Mixture Learning Based Object Detection. 1339-1351
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  Zhirong Yang, Zhijian Yuan, Jorma Laaksonen: Projective Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Applications to Facial Image Processing. 1353-1362