Abstract We address the problem of indexing broadcast audiovisual documents (such as films, news). Starting from a collection of so-called shots, we aim at building automatically h...
Abstract--Effective complexity measures the information content of the regularities of an object. It has been introduced by M. Gell-Mann and S. Lloyd to avoid some of the disadvant...
Abstract Let L be a propositional language with standard Boolean connectives plus two modalities: an S4-ish topological modality and a temporal modality , understood as `next'...
Abstract--We propose several heuristic algorithms that reconfigure logical topologies in wide-area wavelength-routed optical networks. Our reconfiguration algorithms attempt to kee...
Abstract. Terms which are not explicitly mentioned in the text of a document receive often a minor role in current retrieval systems. In this work we connect the management of such...