Signature Elaine Chew     selected bibliography: sorted by type



journal volumes

Special Issue on Computation. E. Chew, A. Cramer, C. Raphael (eds.), Journal of Mathematics and Music, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (2008). [ CFP | PUB ]

Special Cluster on Computation in Music. E. Chew, R. Dannenberg, J. Sokol, M. Steedman (eds.), INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer, 2006). [ CFP | PUB ]

Special Issue on Music Visualization. E. Chew (coord.), ACM Computers in Entertainment, Vol. 3, Issue 4 (October, 2005). [ PUB ]

proceedings volumes

Mathematics and Computation in Music - Second International Conference, MCM 2009, John Clough Memorial Conference, New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-22, 2009. Proceedings. E. Chew, A. P. Childs, C.-H. Chuan (eds.), Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) Volume 38, 2009. [ URL | CFP | PUB ]

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. J. P. Bello, E. Chew, D. Turnbull (eds.), Lulu.com, Philadelphia, PA, Sep 14-18, 2008. [ URL | CFP | PUB ]

Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia. X. Amatriain, E. Chew, J. Foote (co-chairs), Santa Barbara, CA, October 27, 2006. [ URL | PUB ]

refereed journal articles

François, Alexandre R. J., Elaine Chew, and Dennis Thurmond (submitted). Performer Centered Visual Feedback in Human-Machine Improvisation. Journal TBA.

Chuan, Ching-Hua and Elaine Chew (submitted). Generating and Evaluating Musical Accompaniments that Emulate Style. Journal TBA.

Chew, Elaine (under revision). The Spiral Array: A Mathematical Model for Tonality. Journal TBA.

Cheng, Eric, and Elaine Chew (2008). Quantitative Analysis of Phrasing Strategies in Expressive Performance: Computational Methods and Analysis of Performances of Unaccompanied Bach for Solo Violin . Journal of New Music Research, Volume 37, Issue 4 (December 2008), pp.325 - 338. [ PUB|ABS ]

Volk, Anja, and Elaine Chew (2008). Re-Considering the Affinity between Metric and Tonal Structures in Brahms' Op.76 No.8. Computing in Musicology. Walter B. Hewlett, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Edmund Correia, Jr. (eds.): Volume 15, Tonal Theory for the Digital Age. [ TOC | PDF ]

Chew, Elaine (2008). Out of the Grid and Into the Spiral: Geometric Interpretations of and Comparisons with the Spiral-Array Model. Computing in Musicology. Walter B. Hewlett, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Edmund Correia, Jr. (eds.): Volume 15, Tonal Theory for the Digital Age. [ TOC | draftPDF ]

Unal, E., E. Chew, P. G. Georgiou, S. S. Narayanan (2008). Challenging Uncertainty: a Fingerprinting Approach. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Malcolm Slaney, Dan Ellis, Mark Sandler, Masataka Goto, Mike Goodwin (eds.): Special Issue on Music Information Retrieval, Vol.16 No.2, February 2008, pp.359-371. [ ABS | PUB ]

Zimmermann, Roger, Elaine Chew, Sakire Arslan Ay, Moses Pawar (2008). Distributed Musical Performances: Architecture and Stream Management. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP), Volume 4, Issue 2 (May 2008), Article No.14. [ PUB|ABS|REF ]

Parke, Rob, Elaine Chew, and Christos Kyriakakis (2007). Quantitative and Visual Analysis of the Impact of Music on Perceived Emotion of Film. ACM Computers in Entertainment, 5(3). [ PUB|ABS|REF ]

Chuan, Ching-Hua, and Elaine Chew (2007). Audio Key Finding: Considerations in System Design, and the Selecting and Evaluating of Solutions. Ichiro Fujinaga, Masataka Goto, George Tzanetakis (eds.): Special Issue on Music Information Retrieval Based on Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 56561, 15 pages. doi:10.1155/2007/56561. New York, NY: Hindawi Publishing Corp. [ PUB | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine (2006). Slicing It All Ways: Mathematical Models for Tonal Induction, Approximation and Segmentation Using the Spiral Array. INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer). [ PUB | REF ]

Chew, Elaine (2005). Regards on Two Regards by Messiaen: Post-tonal Music Segmentation Using Pitch Context Distances in the Spiral Array. Gerard Assayag (guest ed.): Special Issue on 'Sound and Music Computing', selected papers from the First Sound and Music Computing Conference, revised and expanded. Journal of New Music Research, Volume 34 No. 4, pp.341-354. [ PUB | ABS | REF ]

Chew, Elaine and François, A.R.J. (2005). Interactive multi-scale visualizations of tonal evolution in MuSA.RT Opus 2. Newton Lee (ed.): Special Issue on Music Visualization and Education, ACM Computers in Entertainment, Vol 3 Issue 4 (October), article 3E, 16 pages [ PUB | ABS ]

Unal, Erdem, Narayanan, Shrikanth S., Shih, Maverick H.-H., Chew, Elaine and Kuo, C.-C. Jay (2005). Creating Data Resources for Designing User-centric Front-ends for Query by Humming Systems. In Chabane Djeraba, Nicu Sebe and Michael S. Lew (guest eds.): a special issue of MIR'03 Workshop on Systems and Architectures for Multimedia Information Retrieval. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Spring 2005, Volume 10 No. 6, pp. 475-483. [ PUB | ABS | draftPDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine, and Chen, Yun-Ching (2005). Real-Time Pitch Spelling Using the Spiral Array. Computer Music Journal (CMJ), summer 2005, vol.29, no.2, pp.61-76. [ PUB | ABS | draftPDF | REF ]

letters

Chew, Elaine (2007). Response to David Meredith RE: Proof of equivalence of spiral array and line of fifths in Chew and Chen's pitch spelling algorithm. Computer Music Journal, fall 2007, vol.31, no.3. doi: 10.1162/comj.2007.31.4.5. [ PUB ]

refereed book chapters

Chew, Elaine and Christopher Raphael (to appear). Music and Operations Research. In James J. Cochran (ed.): Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (EORMS), John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, NY. ISBN: 9789-0-470-40061-6.

Chew, Elaine and Xiaodan Wu (2005). Separating Voices in Polyphonic Music: A Contig Mapping Approach. In Uffe K. Wiil (ed.): Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Second International Symposium, CMMR 2004, Esbjerg, Denmark, May 26-29, 2004. Revised Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS) Vol.3310, pp.1-20, Springer-Verlag GmbH: Berlin. ISBN: 3-540-24458-1. [ PUB | ABS | PDF | REF | REV ]

Chew, Elaine, Anja Volk (Fleischer), and Chia-Ying Lee (2005). Dance Music Classification Using Inner Metric Analysis: a computational approach and case study using 101 Latin American Dances and National Anthems. In Bruce Golden, S. Raghavan, Edward Wasil (eds.): The Next Wave in Computing, Optimization and Decision Technologies: Proceedings of the 9th INFORMS Computing Society Conference. Springer OR/CS Interfaces Series No.29, pp.355-370. ICS2005, Annapolis, MD, Jan 5-7, 2005. ISBN: 0-387-23528-0. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine (2004). The PPP Connection: Paintings, Poems, Pieces -- An Essay on Wang Lisan's "Impressions of Paintings by Higashiyama Kaii". In E. Tarasti (ed.) R. Littlefield, P. Forsell (assistant eds.): From Nature To Psyche. Proceedings from the ISI Summer Congresses at Imatra in 2001-2002. Acta Semiotica Fennica XX, Helsinki, Finland. ISBN: 952-5431-08-8, ISSN:1235-497X. [ HTML ]

Chew, Elaine & Yun-Ching Chen (2003). Mapping MIDI to the Spiral Array: Disambiguating Pitch Spellings. In H. K. Bhargava and Nong Ye, eds., Computational Modeling and Problem Solving in the Networked World, Proceedings of the 8th INFORMS Computing Society Conference, ICS2003, Chandler, AZ, Jan 8-10, 2003. Kluwer Academic Publishers, OR/CS Interfaces Series Vol.21, pp.259-275. ISBN: 1-4020-7295-3. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine (2002). The Spiral Array: An Algorithm for Determining Key Boundaries. In C. Anagnostopoulou, M. Ferrand, A. Smaill (Eds.): Music and Artificial Intelligence - Second International Conference, ICMAI 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 12-14, 2002, Proceedings ( ICMAI 2002 ). Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol.2445, pp.18-31. ISBN: 3-540-44145-X. [ PUB | ABS | PDF | REF ]

invited proceedings papers

Chew, Elaine, Sawchuk, Alexander, Zimmerman, Roger, the Tosheff Piano Duo (Stoyanova, Vely and Tosheff, Ilia), Kyriakakis, Christos, Papadopoulos, Christos, François, Alexandre, Volk, Anja (2004). Distributed Immersive Performance. In Proceedings of the 2004 Annual National Association of the Schools of Music (NASM) Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 22, 2004. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine & Alexandre François (2003). Real-Time Music Information Processing. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference for Computers and Industrial Engineering, ICCIE2003, San Francisco, CA, February 2-4, 2003. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

refereed proceedings papers

Chuan, Ching-Hua and Elaine Chew (2008). Evaluating and Visualizing Effectiveness of Style Emulation in Musical Accompaniment. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, PA, September 14-18, pp.57-62. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine and Alexandre R. J. François (2008). MuSA.RT and the Pedal: the Role of the Sustain Pedal in Clarifying Tonal Structure. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan, August 25-29. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Swanson, R., Chew, E., Gordon, A. S. (2008). Supporting Musical Creativity with Unsupervised Syntactic Parsing. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium (SSS'08) on Creative Intelligent Systems, Stanford University, California, March 25-28, 2008. [ TOC | PDF ]

Parke, R., E. Chew, and C. Kyriakakis (2007). Multiple Regression Modeling of the Emotional Content of Film and Music. In Proceedings of the 123rd Audio Engineering Society Convention, New York, NY, October 5-8, 2007. [ ABS | PDF | REF | REV ]

Unal, E., P. G. Georgiou, S. S. Naryanan, E. Chew (2007). Statistical Modeling and Retrieval of Polyphonic Music. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Chania, Crete, Greece, October 1-3, 2007.

Chuan, C.-H. and E. Chew (2007). A Dynamic Programming Approach to the Extraction of Phrase Boundaries from Tempo Variations in Expressive Performances. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Vienna, Austria, Sep 23-27, 2007. [ URL | ABS | PDF ]

Mardirossian, A. and E. Chew (2007). Visualizing Music: Tonal Progressions and Distributions. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Vienna, Austria, Sep 23-27, 2007, pp.189-194. [ URL | ABS | PDF ]

Chuan, C.-H. and E. Chew (2007). A Hybrid System for Automatic Generation of Style-Specific Accompaniment. Fourth International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity (CC07), Goldsmiths, University of London, June 17-19, 2007. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

François, A. R. J., E. Chew, and C. D. Thurmond (2007). Visual Feedback in Performer-Machine Interaction for Musical Improvisation. In Proceedings of International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME2007), New York, June, 2007. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, E. (2007). Pitch Symmetry and Invariants in Webern's 'Sehr Schnell' from Variations Op.27. In Proceedings of the MCM Workshop on Computational Music Analysis (ws), Berlin, Germany, May 16 (initial meeting), 19-20 (presentations), 2007.

Chew, E. and A. R. J. François (2007). Visible Humour - Seeing P.D.Q. Bach's Musical Humour Devices in The Short-Tempered Clavier on the Spiral Array Space. In Proceedings of Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM2007), the First International Conference of the Society of Mathematics and Computation in Music, Berlin, Germany May 18-20, 2007. [ URL | ABS | PDF | REF ]

Cheng, E. and Chew, E. (2007). A Local Maximum Phrase Detection Method and the Analysis of Phrasing Strategies in Expressive Performances. In Proceedings of Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM2007), the First International Conference of the Society of Mathematics and Computation in Music, Berlin, Germany May 18-20, 2007. [ URL | ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chuan, C.-H. and E. Chew (2006). The Effect of Key and Tempo on Audio Onset Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques. In Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2006), part of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'06), pp.805-810, San Diego, CA, December 11-13, 2006. [ PUB | REF ]

Chew, Elaine, Jie Liu, and Alexandre R. J. François (2006). ESP: Roadmaps as Constructed Interpretations and Guides to Expressive Performance. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia (AMCMM'06), held in conjunction with the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct 27, pp.137-145, 2006. [ PUB | ABS | PDF | REF ]

Unal, E., S. S. Narayanan, E. Chew, P. G. Georgiou and N. Dahlin (2006). A Dictionary Based Approach for Robust and Syllable-Independent Audio Input Transcription for Query by Humming Systems. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia (AMCMM'06), held in conjunction with the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct 27, pp.37-43, 2006. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine (2006). Imparting knowledge and skills at the forefront of interdiscinterdisciplinary research - a case study on course design at the intersection of music and engineering. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - Borders: International, Social, Cultural (FIE2006). San Diego, October 28-31, 2006. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Mardirossian, A. and E. Chew (2006). Music Summarization Via Key Distributions: Analyses of Similarity Assessment Across Variations. The 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR2006), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, October 8-12, 2006. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Liu, Jie, Elaine Chew, and Alexandre R. J. François (2006). From Driving to Expressive Music Performance: Ensuring Tempo Smoothness. ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Hollywood, CA, June 14-16, 2006. ACM SIGCHI, 2006, ISBN:1-59593-380-8. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

François, Alexandre R. J., Elaine Chew (2006). An Architectural Framework for Interactive Music Systems. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, IRCAM, Paris, June 5-7, 2006. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Mardirossian, A. and E. Chew (2005). Key Distributions as Musical Fingerprints for Similarity Assessment. In Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2005), part of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'05), Irvine, CA, December 12-14, pp.592-597, 2005. [ PUB | ABS | REF ]

Yang, A. C., E. Chew and A. Volk (2005). A Dynamic Programming Approach to Adaptive Tatum Assignment for Rhythm Transcription. In Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2005), part of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'05), Irvine, CA, December 12-14, pp.577-584, 2005. [ PUB | ABS | REF ]

Huang, C.-Z. (Anna) and E. Chew (2005). Palestrina Pal: a grammar checker for music compositions in the style of Palestrina. In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Understanding and Creating Music (UCM5), Caserta, Italy, November 27-30, 2005.

Chew, E., Sawchuk, A., Tanoue, C., Zimmermann, R. (2005). Segmental Tempo Analysis of Performances in Performer-Centered experiments in the Distributed Immersive Performance Project. In Proceedings of International Conference on Sound and Music Computing '05 (SMC05), Salerno, Italy, November 24-26, 2005. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chuan, C.-H. and Chew, E. (2005). Fuzzy Reasoning in Pitch Class Determination for Polyphonic Audio Key Finding. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Sep 11-15, pp.296-303, 2005, London, UK (ISMIR2005). [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, E., Zimmermann, R., Sawchuk, A., Papadopoulos, C., Kyriakakis, C., Tanoue, C., Desai, D., Pawar, M., Sinha, R., Meyer, W. (2005). A Second Report on the User Experiments in the Distributed Immersive Performance Project. 5th Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK: Integration of Music in Multimedia Applications, July 4-5, 2005, Vienna, Austria (workshop, programme). [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine, Alexandre François, Jie Liu and Aaron Yang (2005). ESP: A Driving Interface for Musical Expression Synthesis. Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, May 26-28, 2005. [ ABS | PDF ]

Chuan, Ching-Hua and Chew, Elaine (2005). Polyphonic Audio Key-Finding Using the Spiral Array CEG Algorithm. International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 6-8, pp.21-24, 2005. [ PUB ]

Chew, Elaine (2004). Regards on Two Regards by Messiaen: Automatic Segmentation Using the Spiral Array. In proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing '04 (SMC'04) conference, IRCAM, Paris, Oct 20-22, 2004. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Unal, Erdem, Narayanan, Shrikanth S., Chew, Elaine (2004). A Statistical Approach to Retrieval under User-dependent Uncertainty in Query-by-Humming Systems. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2004), New York, NY, October 15-16, 2004. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, E., Zimmermann, R., Sawchuk, A.A., Kyriakakis, C., Papadopoulos, C., François, A.R.J., Kim, G., Rizzo, A. and Volk, A. (2004). Musical Interaction at a Distance: Distributed Immersive Performance. In proceedings of the 4th Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK: Integration of Music in Multimedia Applications, Barcelona, Spain, Sep 15-16, 2004. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Yardi, Shivani and Chew, Elaine (2004). "Giving Ragas the Time of Day: Linking structure, emotion and performance time in North Indian Classical Music using the Harmonic Network". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Evanston, IL, August 3-7, 2004. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine and Wu, Xiaodan (2004). Separating Voices in Polyphonic Music: A Contig Mapping Approach. In Uffe K. Wiil (ed.): Proceedings of Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2004 (CMMR 2004), Esbjerg, Denmark, May 26-29, 2004. [ ABS | PDF | REF | REV ]

Chew, Elaine & François, Alexandre R. J. (2003). MuSA.RT - Music on the Spiral Array . Real-Time. In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia '03 Conference, MM'03, Berkeley, CA, Nov 2-8, 2003. [ PUB | ABS | PDF | REF ]

Sawchuk, A.A., Chew, E., Zimmermann, R., Papadopoulos, C. and Kyriakakis, C. (2003). From Remote Media Immersion to Distributed Immersive Performance. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMM 2003 Workshop on Experiential Telepresence (ETP 2003), Berkeley, CA, Nov 7, 2003. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Unal, E., Narayanan, S.S., Shih, H.-H., Chew, E., Kuo, C.-C. Jay (2003). Creating Data Resources for Designing User-centric Front-ends for Query by Humming Systems. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2003), Berkeley, CA, Nov 7, 2003. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine & Chen, Yun-Ching (2003). Determining Context-Defining Windows: Pitch Spelling using the Spiral Array. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference for Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR, Baltimore, MD, Oct 26-30, 2003. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine & Chen, Yun-Ching (2003). Mapping MIDI to the Spiral Array: Disambiguating Pitch Spellings. In H. K. Bhargava and Nong Ye, eds., Computational Modeling and Problem Solving in the Networked World, Proceedings of the 8th INFORMS Computing Society Conference, ICS2003, Chandler, AZ, Jan 8-10, 2003. Kluwer Academic Publishers, OR/CS Interfaces Series Vol.21, pp.259-275. ISBN: 1-4020-7295-3. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine (2002). The Spiral Array: An Algorithm for Determining Key Boundaries. In C. Anagnostopoulou, M. Ferrand, A. Smaill (Eds.): Music and Artificial Intelligence - Second International Conference, ICMAI 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 12-14, 2002, Proceedings ( ICMAI 2002 ). Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol.2445, pp.18-31. ISBN: 3-540-44145-X. [ PUB | ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine (2001). Modeling Tonality: Applications to Music Cognition. In Johanna D. Moore & Keith Stenning (Eds.): Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci2001, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, August 1-4, 2001. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. Pub, Mahwah, NJ/London, pp.206-211. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Chew, Elaine (2001). A Walk Through Tonal Space: Charting the Establishing of Key of a Melody. In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts. Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2-4, 2001.

conference proceedings abstracts

Chuan, Ching-Hua and Elaine Chew (2008). Learning Harmonic Syntax to Generate Style-Specific Pop/Rock Accompaniment. In Proceedings of Music, Langauge & the Mind - A conference in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff's A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, Tufts University, Boston, MA, July 10-13. [ ABS | PDF ]

Chuan, Ching-Hua and Chew, Elaine (2005). Audio Key Finding using FACEG: Fuzzy Analysis with the CEG Algorithm. Extended abstract (4-page) of the 1st Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2005), held in conjunction with ISMIR 2005, London, UK. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Mardirossian, Arpi and Chew, Elaine (2005). SKeFiS -- a symbolic (MIDI) key-finding system. Extended abstract (3-page) of the 1st Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2005), held in conjunction with ISMIR 2005, London, UK. [ ABS | PDF | REF ]

Volk (Fleischer), Anja and Chew, Elaine (2005). Re-Considering the Affinity between Metric and Tonal Structures in Brahms' Op.76 No.8. Annual Meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State. [ ABS | proposal | slides ]

Chew, E., Sawchuk, A.A., Zimmermann, R. (2005). Distributed Immersive Performance: Ameliorating the Psychophysical Effects of Network Latency. In Proceedings of the Corporation of Education Networks in California (CENIC) 2005 Meeting, Marina del Rey, CA, Mar 7-9, 2005. [ ABS ]

Chuan, C.-H., Chew, E. (2005). Applying the Spiral Array Key-finding Algorithm to Polyphonic Audio. In Proceedings of the 9th INFORMS Computing Society Conference (invited sessions on Music, Computation and AI), Annapolis, MD, Jan 5-7, 2005. [ ABS ]

Chew, E., Volk, A., Lee, C.-Y. (2005). Dance Music Classification Using Inner Metric Analysis. In Proceedings of the 9th INFORMS Computing Society Conference (invited sessions on Music, Computation and AI), Annapolis, MD, Jan 5-7, 2005. [ ABS ]

Chew, E. (2004). Measuring Musical Dissimilarity: First and Second Order Center of Effect (CE) Differences in the Spiral Array. In proceedings of the 1001th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society: Special Sessions on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, organized by Judith Baxter, Richard Cohn and Robert Peck, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Oct 23-24, 2004. [ ABS ]

Sawchuk, A.A., Chew, E., Zimmermann, R., Papadopoulos, C. and Kyriakakis, C. (2004). Distributed Immersive Performance. In Proceedings of the Corporation of Education Networks in California (CENIC) 2004 Meeting, Marina del Rey, CA, Mar 15-17, 2004. [ PDF ]

Chew, E. (2003). Slicing It All Ways: Mathematical Models for Tonal Segmentation. In proceedings for the invited cluster on "OR in the Arts: Applications in Music" at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) meeting, Atlanta, GA, October, 2003. [ ABS ]

François, A. R. J., Chew, E. (2003). Design for Real-Time Systems. In proceedings for the invited cluster on "OR in the Arts: Applications in Music" at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) meeting, Atlanta, GA, October, 2003. [ ABS ]

Chew, E. (2002). The PPP Connection: Paintings, Poetry, Pieces -- Wang Lisan's "Impressions of Paintings by Higashiyama Kaii". In proceedings for the special session on "A Concert of Paintings: Musical Ekphrasis Throughout the Centuries" at the 17th International Musicological Society Conference (the conference takes place only once every five years), Leuven, Belgium, August, 2002.

Chew, E. (2001). Exploiting the Structure of Musical Space to Represent Musical Information. In proceedings for the INFORMS meeting, Miami, FL, November, 2001.

Chew, Elaine (2001). The PPP Connection: Paintings, Poems, Pieces -- An Essay on Wang Lisan's "Impressions of Paintings by Higashiyama Kaii". In proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Musical Signification, Imatra, June 7-10, 2001. [ HTML ]

Chew, E. (2000). Towards a Mathematical Model for Tonality. In proceedings for the Society of Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) at the Toronto 2000 conference, a joint meeting of fifteen societies engaged in musical research, November, 2000.

Chew, E. (1999). A Geometric Model for Computational Music Analysis. In proceedings for the INFORMS meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November, 1999.

theses

Chew, Elaine (2000). Towards a Mathematical Model of Tonality. Ph.D. dissertation. Operations Research Center, MIT. Cambridge, MA. [ non-printable PDF ]

Chew, Elaine (1998). Multiperiod Portfolio Optimization: Feynman diagrams and approximate dynamic programming. S.M. thesis. Operations Research Center, MIT. Cambridge, MA.

Dantzig, George B. (1992). Bracketing to speed convergence illustrated on the Von Neumann algorithm for finding a feasible solution to a linear program with a convexity constraint. Computational analysis by Elaine Chew. [Stanford University Systems Optimization Laboratory Technical Report SOL 92-6 ]

magazine articles

Chew, Elaine (2008). Math & Music - The Perfect Match. OR/MS Today, June Issue, Volume 35, Number 3, pp.26-31. [ PDF ]

Chew, Elaine (2008). Dantzig's Indirect Contribution to Music Research: How the von Neumann Center of Gravity Algorithm Influenced the Center of Effect Generator Key Finding Algorithm. INFORMS Computing Society Newsletter, Spring 2008, pp.21-25. [ PDF ]

Chew, Elaine (2002). Music Information Processing: a new application for Operations Researchers. In the Winter 2002 issue of AIROnews, the official newsletter of the Associazione Italiana di Ricerca Operativa (AIRO), pp.9-14. [ PDF ]

technical reports

Chuan, Ching-Hua, and Elaine Chew (2008). Audio Onset Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques: The Effect and Applicability of Key and Tempo Information. University of Southern California Computer Science Department Technical Report No. 08-895. [ PUB ]

François, A.R.J., E. Chew and D. Thurmond (2007). MIMI - A Musical Improvisation System That Provides Visual Feedback to the Performer. University of Southern California Computer Science Department Technical Report No.07-889. [ PUB ]

François, A.R.J., and E. Chew (2006). An Architectural Framework for Interactive Music Systems. USC Integrated Media Systems Center Technical Report No.06-001. [ ABS | PUB ]

Chuan, C.-H., and E. Chew (2005). Polyphonic Audio Key Finding Using the Spiral Array CEG Algorithm. USC Integrated Media Systems Center Technical Report No.05-001. [ ABS | PUB ]

Chew, E. (2003). Thinking Out of the Grid and Inside the Spiral - Geometric Interpretations of and Comparisons with the Spiral Array Model. USC Integrated Media Systems Center Technical Report No.03-002. [ ABS | PUB ]