Understanding shapes has been a challenging issue for many years, firstly motivated by computer vision and more recently by many complex applications in diverse fields, such as me...
Marco Attene, Silvia Biasotti, Michela Mortara, Gi...
The concepts of autonomous agent and multi-agent system appropriate levels of abstraction for the design, implementation and simulation of many complex, distributed computational s...
Michael Luck, Peter McBurney, Jorge Gonzalez-Palac...
Service oriented computing and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing are emerging technologies which provide, from the architectural point of view, scalability and flexibility. From their...
We describe the challenge of combining continuous computer vision techniques and qualitative, symbolic methods to achieve a system capable of cognitive vision. Key to a truly cogni...
Anthony G. Cohn, David C. Hogg, Brandon Bennett, V...
Distributed computing systems are becoming bigger and more complex. While the complexity of large-scale distributed systems has been acknowledged to be an important challenge, the...