We introduce a logical formalism of irreflexivc causal production relations that possesses both a standard monotonic semantics, and a natural nonmonotonic semantics. The formalism...
For systems where exact constitutive relations are unknown, a microscopic level description can be alternatively used. As microscopic simulations are computationally expensive, th...
Aiming at explicit description of temporal meaning of causal relations generated by qualitative reasoning systems, this article proposes a causal time ontology which defines a se...
through the specification of temporal, spatial and spatio-temporal relations. Moreover, we propose an abstract animation model that can be combined with the intra-media temporal st...
A novel background generation method based on nonparametric background model is presented for background subtraction. We introduce a new model, named as effect components descript...