A “scoring rule” is an assignment of a value to every tuple (of varying sizes). This paper is concerned with the issue of how to modify a scoring rule to apply to the case whe...
—A major research subject in image databases is to support efficient and effective access to images based on their visual content. In color image databases, this requires to sup...
Alberto Del Bimbo, Mauro Mugnaini, Pietro Pala, F....
Abstract. Most phylogenetics literature and construction methods based upon characters presume monomorphism (one state per character per species), yet polymorphism (multiple states...
Maria Luisa Bonet, Cynthia A. Phillips, Tandy Warn...
This paper addresses the problem of atomic multicasting messages in asynchronous distributed systems. Firstly, we give a characterization of the notion of genuine atomic multicast...
A logical database schema, e.g. a relational one, is an implementation of a speci cation, e.g. an entity-relationship diagram. Upcoming new data models and the necessity of seamle...