A new model which can recognize rotated, distorted, scaled, shifted and noised patterns is proposed. The model is constructed based on psychological experiments in a mental rotatio...
Concurrency in Logic Programming has received much attention in the past. One problem with many proposals, when applied to Prolog, is that they involve large modifications to the...
The importance of faces in human interaction explains the desire for synthetic faces as a communication vehicle in computer graphics. Unfortunately, animating a face is a very com...
A model was introduced in [Fraga97] for integrating replication techniques in heterogeneous systems. The model adopts a reflective structure based on the meta-object approach [10]...
Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Carlos Mazier...
Formal methods are a nice idea, but the size and complexity of real systems means that they are impractical. We propose that a reasonable alternative to attempting to specify and ...
A probabilistic model for software development projects is constructed. The model can be applied to compute an estimate for the development time of a project. The chances of succee...
When modelling complex systems one can not include all the causal factors, but one has to settle for partial models. This is alright if the factors left out are either so constant...
Abstract. We present a formal model of negotiation between autonomous agents. The purpose of the negotiation is to reach an agreement about the provision of a service by one agent ...
Carles Sierra, Peyman Faratin, Nicholas R. Jenning...
We introduce a cost model for the M-tree access method [Ciaccia et al., 1997] which provides estimates of CPU (distance computations) and I/O costs for the execution of similarity ...
: This paper presents a general rst-order kinematic model of frictionless rigid-body contact for use in hybrid force motion control. It is formulated in an invariant manner by trea...
Roy Featherstone, Stef Sonck Thiebaut, Oussama Kha...