Abstract. Combinatorial search methods often exhibit a large variability in performance. We study the cost pro les of combinatorial search procedures. Our study reveals some intrig...
Abstract Method invocation mechanism is one of the essential features in objectoriented programming languages. This mechanism contributes to data encapsulation and code reuse, but ...
Abstract. This paper describes WIPETM (Wavelet Image Pornography Elimination), an algorithm capable of classifying an image as objectionable or benign. The algorithm uses a combina...
Abstract. Reasoning on programs and automated deduction often require the manipulation of in nite sets of objects. Many formalisms have been proposed to handle such sets. Here we d...
Abstract. Many recent works point out that there are several possibilities of assigning a meaning to a concept definition containing some sort of recursion. In this paper, we argue...