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Data exploration is considered one of the major processes that enables the user to analyze massive amount of data in order to find the most important and relevant informa- tion needed. Aggregation and Ranking are two of the most frequently used tools in data exploration. The interaction between ranking and aggregation has been studied widely from different perspectives. In this thesis, a comprehensive survey about this interaction is studied. Holistic Ranking Aggregation which is a new interaction is introduced. Finally, various algorithms are proposed to efficiently process ad-hoc holistic ranking aggregation for both monotone and generic scoring functions.

The problem of stress assignment is to identify which syllables are phonetically more prominent than the others in a word. It is not only of theoretical interests to linguists but also very important to Text-to-Speech systems in terms of both accuracy and naturalness of pronunciation. Besides providing an in-depth survey of existing stress assignment algorithms in the fields of linguistics and speech generation, this thesis presents a ranking approach to stress assignment for both letters and phonemes. The final system is language independent and clearly outperforms all previous systems. When combined with a current state of art Letter-to-Phoneme system, error rate in stress assignment is reduced by up to 40%

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-95).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-102).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-227).

Zugl.: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2009

This paper reports the results of a survey among regional scientists about what are the most important journals in the discipline. The survey has been conducted online and generated 740 responses. The paper shows strong consensus among the regional science community about the top journals in the discipline. Particularly the top position is almost always occupied by the same journal, irrespective of the method we apply, or the way we subdivide our sample. Marked differences can only be found between countries, particularly between European countries on the one side and the US and Japan on the other. When we correlate our results with the impact factors of the journals, we cannot find a strong positive correlation. Correlation coefficients are small and most of the time negative. / Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

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