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GIS
1999
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Spatio-Temporal Conceptual Models: Data Structures + Space + Time
Nowadays, many applications need data modeling facilities for the description of complex objects with spatial and/or temporal facilities. Responses to such requirements may be fou...
Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra, Esteban Zi...
COGSCI
2004
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13 years 6 months ago
Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers
Previous research suggests that children can infer causal relations from patterns of events. However, what appear to be cases of causal inference may simply reduce to children rec...
David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
ER
2007
Springer
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14 years 26 days ago
Towards Automated Reasoning on ORM Schemes
The goal of this article is to formalize Object Role Modeling (ORM) using the DLR description logic. This would enable automated reasoning on the formal properties of ORM diagrams,...
Mustafa Jarrar
SIGGRAPH
1990
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Fast animation and control of nonrigid structures
We describe a fast method for creating physically based animation of non-rigid objects. Rapid simulation of nonrigid behavior is based on global deformations. Constraints are used...
Andrew P. Witkin, William Welch
HLPPP
1991
13 years 10 months ago
Reasoning About Synchronic Groups
Swarm is a computational model which extends the UNITY model in three important ways: (1) UNITY’s fixed set of variables is replaced by an unbounded set of tuples which are add...
Gruia-Catalin Roman, H. Conrad Cunningham