We explore the meanings of the terms as "structure," "behavior," and, especially, "function" in engineering practice. Computers provide great help in...
This paper focuses on parallel query optimization. We consider the operator problem and introduce a new class of execution strategies called Linear-Oriented Bushy Trees (LBTs). Co...
A new ASIC capable of computing rank order "lters, weighted rank order "lters, standard erosion and dilation, soft erosion and dilation, order statistic soft erosion and...
Abstract. This article introduces structural aspects in an ontology of approximate reason. The basic assumption in this ontology is that approximate reason is a capability of an ag...
James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron, Jaroslaw Stepani...
With over 800 million pages covering most areas of human endeavor, the World-wide Web is a fertile ground for data mining research to make a di erence to the e ectiveness of infor...