: The duality of objects and relationships is so deeply embedded in our thinking that almost all modelling languages include it as a fundamental distinction. Yet there is evidence ...
We introduce three deÿnitions of q-analogs of Motzkin numbers and illustrate some combinatorial interpretations of these q-numbers. We relate the ÿrst class of q-numbers to the ...
Elena Barcucci, Alberto Del Lungo, Jean-Marc Fedou...
In this paper, we propose a formal model for multilevel databases. This model aims at being a generic model, that is it can be interpreted for any kind of database (relational, ob...
— This paper explores the variations in mean queue length for stationary arrival processes with the same mean and autocorrelation functions, or equivalently, the same mean and po...
Abstract--In this paper, we describe an object-based video compression scheme based on the derivation and efficient coding of motion boundaries. First, we recursively identify a sm...