Abstract. Efficient image retrieval from large image databases is a challenging problem. In this paper we present a method offering constant time complexity for the comparison of t...
The first Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) has been launched at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2006. This task is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer...
We examine scattered hairpins, which are structures formed when a single strand of nucleotides folds into a partially hybridized stem and a loop. To specify different classes of h...
Abstract. We study the problem of checking the competence of communicative agents operating in a global society in order to receive and offer electronic services. Such a society wi...
There is little or no guidance to systematically design a self-organising emergent solution that achieves the desired macroscopic behaviour. This paper describes decentralised coor...