We present the new notion of enforced generative pattern, a structure that declares positive or negative conditions that must be satisfied by a model. Patterns are applied to tran...
Hospital Patient Scheduling is an inherently distributed problem because of the way real hospitals are organized. As medical procedures have become more complex, and their associat...
Researchers have thus far focused on the recognition of alpha and numeric characters in isolation as well as in context. In this paper we introduce a new genre of problems where t...
Abstract New application areas or new technical innovations expect from database management systems more and more new functionality. However, adding functions to the DBMS as an int...
Odometers or “adding machines” are usually introduced in the context of positional numeration systems built on a strictly increasing sequence of integers. We generalize this no...