To meet users’ growing needs for accessing pre-existing heterogeneous databases, a multidatabase system (MDBS) integrating multiple databases has attracted many researchers recen...
The fact that objects in the world appear in different ways depending on the scale of observation has important implications if one aims at describing them. It shows that the not...
In recent work we have presented a formal framework for linguistic annotation based on labeled acyclic digraphs. These `annotation graphs' oer a simple yet powerful method fo...
In the previous two decades, a number of qualitative constraint calculi have been developed, which are used to represent and reason about spatial configurations. A common property...
—We propose novel discrete cosine transform (DCT) pseudophase techniques to estimate shift/delay between two onedimensional (1-D) signals directly from their DCT coefficients by...