Abstract. In spatial reasoning the qualitative description of relations between spatial regions is of practical importance and has been widely studied. Examples of such relations a...
This paper1 discusses the use of `conversational' or `dialogue games' as a basis for building dialogue systems. We give a tutorial overview of some recent attempts to re...
Agrawal and Kiernan’s watermarking technique for database relations [1] and Li et al’s fingerprinting extension [6] both depend critically on primary key attributes. Hence, t...
In this paper a distributed algorithm for clock synchronization is proposed. This algorithm is based on an extension of the consensus algorithm able to synchronize a family of dou...
"Open contribution systems" (OCS) are online applications that encourage users to contribute and share content in a "public" and open manner. While these syste...