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2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Creating Chances Through Cognitive Niche Construction
Abstract As a matter of fact, humans continuously delegate and distribute cognitive functions to the environment to lessen their limits. They build models, representations, and oth...
Lorenzo Magnani
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Brown dwarf: a P2P data-warehousing system
In this demonstration we present the Brown Dwarf, a distributed system designed to efficiently store, query and update multidimensional data. Deployed on any number of commodity ...
Katerina Doka, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Nectarios Kozi...
ICONIP
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Complex Spiking Models: A Role for Diffuse Thalamic Projections in Complex Cortical Activity
Cortical activity exhibits complex, persistent self-sustained dynamics, which is hypothesised to support the brain’s sophisticated processing capabilities. Prior studies have sho...
Peter Stratton, Janet Wiles
IPMU
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Retrieving Texture Images Using Coarseness Fuzzy Partitions
Abstract. In this paper, a Fuzzy Dominant Texture Descriptor is proposed for semantically describing an image. This fuzzy descriptor is defined over a set of fuzzy sets modelling ...
Jesús Chamorro-Martínez, Pedro Manue...
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Dual-Sorted Inverted Lists
Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
Gonzalo Navarro, Simon J. Puglisi