Abstract During its development computer science has more and more established a way it sees itself. However, in recent years the rise of distributed systems and object orientation...
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously search for and synthesize user-oriented knowledge (target knowledge) in large local or distributed databases. A knowledge ge...
with functions over those sets. This level of abstraction is commensurate with the view that the correctness of the input/output behaviour of a program takes precedence over all it...
Abstract—We present a unified graphical model framework for describing compound codes and deriving iterative decoding algorithms. After reviewing a variety of graphical models (...
Abstract— This paper reports a novel method for fully automated segmentation that is based on description of shape and its variation using point distribution models (PDM’s). An...