A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
The requirement to change scale frequently is common to many 2D and 3D applications. Users must “zoom in” to examine details and “zoom out” to appreciate the context. This...
Narrative structure models are useful tools for understanding how and why narratives of any medium affect an audience's level of participation in their role of story reconstr...
The sequential approach to colour texture classification relies on colour histogram clustering before extracting texture features from indexed images. The basic idea of such method...
Distributed systems are difficult to design and develop. The difficulties arise both in basic safety correctness properties, and in achieving high performance. As a result of this...