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Current Progress in Biological Research presents new insights into key topics from different areas of the biological sciences. Some of the topics covered in the book are antibiotic susceptibility, genomic rearrangement, historical biogeography, biogeographic patterns, endemism and the use of microorganisms for pest control. The book is an interesting collection of 16 original research articles written by respected experts in their fields. It is hoped that readers will be stimulated and challenged by the contents of this book.

Automatic biometrics recognition techniques are increasingly important in corporate and public security systems and have increased in methods due to rapid field development. This book discusses classic behavioral biometrics as well as collects the latest advances in techniques, theoretical approaches, and dynamic applications. This future-looking book is an important reference tool for researchers, practitioners, academicians, and technologists. While there are existing books that focus on physiological biometrics or algorithmic approaches deployed in biometrics, this book addresses a gap in the existing literature for a text that is solely dedicated to the topic of behavioral biometrics.

Recently, there has been an increased interest in the research and development of techniques for components of complete document analysis systems. In recognition of this trend, a series of workshops on Document Analysis Systems commenced in 1994, under the leadership of Henry Baird. The first workshop, held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in October, 1994, was chaired by Andreas Dengel and Larry Spitz. The second workshop on Document Analysis Systems was held in Malvern, PA, USA, in October, 1996, chaired by Jonathan J. Hull and Suzanne Liebowitz Taylor. The DAS workshop has been one of the most prestigious technical meetings, bringing together a large number of scientists and engineers from all over the world to express their innovative ideas and report on their latest achievements in the area of document analysis systems. The papers in this special book edition were rigorously selected from the Third IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS’98), held in Nagano, Japan, on 4 - 6 November 1998. It is worth mentioning that the papers were chosen for their original and substantial contributions to the workshop theme and this special book edition. From among the 53 papers that were presented by authors from 11 countries at the DAS’98 after critical reviews by at least three experts, we carefully selected 29 papers for this special book edition. Most of the contributions in this edition have been expanded or extensively revised to include helpful discussions, suggestions, or comments made during the workshop.

Advances in Handwriting Recognition contains selected key papers from the 6th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR '98), held in Taejon, Korea from 12 to 14, August 1998. Most of the papers have been expanded or extensively revised to include helpful discussions, suggestions or comments made during the workshop. Contents:On-Line Hand Writing Recognition by Discrete HMM with Fast Learning (H Yasuda et al.)Diacritical Processing Using Efficient Accounting Procedures in a Forward Search (G Seni & J Seybold)A Handwritten Form Reader Architecture (C Cracknell & A C Downton)Combining Different Classifiers and Level of Knowledge: A First Step Towards an Adaptive Recognition System (D Ollivier et al.)Architecture for Handwritten Text Recognition Systems (G Kim et al.)Search Algorithms for the Recognition of Cursive Phrases Without World Segmentation (C Scagliola)A Method for the Determination of Features Used in Human Reading of Cursive Handwriting (L Schomaker & E Segers)Global Methods for Stroke Segmentation (Y Nakajima et al.)An Advanced Segmentation Technique for Cursive Word Recognition (G Dimauro et al.)Document Understanding Based on Maximum a Posteriori Probability Estimation (T Akagi & H Mizutani)Combining Shape Matrices and HMMs for Hand-Drawn Pictogram Recognition (S Muller et al.)and other papers Readership: Researchers and graduate students in computer science and electrical engineering. Keywords:Handwriting Recognition;Character Recognition;Document Analysis and Recognition;OCR (Optical Character Recognition);Online Recognition;Offline Recognition;Pen-Computing