In recent years, research about distributing databases over networks has become increasingly important. Here we concentrate on the issues of interoperability of heterogeneous DBMS...
Stefan Grufman, Fredrik Samson, Suzanne M. Embury,...
We present a model of a `gas of circles', the ensemble of regions in the image domain consisting of an unknown number of circles with approximately fixed radius and short ran...
Peter Horvath, Ian Jermyn, Zoltan Kato, and Josian...
Humans and animals learn much better when the examples are not randomly presented but organized in a meaningful order which illustrates gradually more concepts, and gradually more ...
In this paper we introduce Ant-Q, a family of algorithms which present many similarities with Q-learning (Watkins, 1989), and which we apply to the solution of symmetric and asymm...
The combined efforts of human volunteers have recently extracted numerous facts from Wikipedia, storing them as machine-harvestable object-attribute-value triples in Wikipedia inf...