Sets play a key role in foundations of mathematics. Why? To what extent is it an accident of history? Imagine that you have a chance to talk to mathematicians from a far-away plane...
This paper presents a general method for incorporating prior knowledge into kernel methods such as Support Vector Machines. It applies when the prior knowledge can be formalized b...
— In many computer vision related applications it is necessary to distinguish between the background of an image and the objects that are contained in it. This is a difficult pr...
Thiago C. Bellardi, Dizan Vasquez, Christian Laugi...
This paper describes an algebra for use with parallel object databases, and in particular ODMG compliant databases with OQL. Although there have been many proposals for parallel r...
Sandra de F. Mendes Sampaio, Norman W. Paton, Paul...
We seek to support the development of open, distributed applications from patible software abstractions. In order to rigorously specify these abstractions, we are elaborating a for...
Markus Lumpe, Jean-Guy Schneider, Oscar Nierstrasz