Temporal aggregate queries retrieve summarized information about records with time-evolving attributes. Existing approaches have at least one of the following shortcomings: (i) th...
In vivo observation of cells in the Arabidopsis thaliana root, by time-lapse confocal microscopy, is central to biology research. The research herein described is based on large a...
Monica Marcuzzo, Pedro Quelhas, Ana Maria Mendon&c...
This paper explores the use of fast, simple computer vision techniques to add compelling visual capabilities to social user interfaces. Social interfaces involve the user in natur...
We present an approach to modeling human interpretation of (real) geographic maps. While in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) the limitations for describing geographic knowledge...
Allometric scaling is an important universal property of metabolic living systems. It also describes the self-similar branching treeliked structures in transportation networks. Thi...