Abstract. That parthood is a transitive relation is among the most basic principles of classical mereology. Alas, it is also very controversial. In a recent paper, Ingvar Johansson...
Functionality is one of the key concepts of knowledge about artifacts. Functional knowledge shows a part of designer's intention (so-called design rationale), and thus its sha...
Large software systems are modularized in order to improve manageability. The parts of the software system communicate in order to achieve the desired functionality. To better und...
Daniel Oberle, Steffen Lamparter, Stephan Grimm, D...
in ontology is quite abstract and often based on toy-examples to the point that the gap between the work of theoreticians and the needs of real applications is too wide to be cross...
In this paper, we present a near infrared (NIR) image based face recognition system. Firstly, we describe a design of NIR image capture device which minimizes influence of enviro...
Stan Z. Li, Lun Zhang, ShengCai Liao, XiangXin Zhu...