Abstract. The needs of efficient and flexible information retrieval on multistructural data stored in database and network are significantly growing. Especially, its flexibility pl...
Traffic sign recognition is a difficult task if we aim at detecting and recognizing signs in images captured from unfavorable environments. Complex background, weather, shadow, and...
T his paper outlines a formal theory for de fining action concepts in taxonomical knowledge representation languages, in a form closely related to description logics. The central p...
As broadband access to the Internet becomes pervasive, the need for a 24 hours a day, seven days a week (24x7) interface within the client devices, requires a level of sophisticati...
This paper presents MetaNews, an information gathering agent for news articles on the Web. MetaNews reads HTML documents from online news sites and extracts article information fro...