Classically, cognition assumes that the underlying mechanisms of thinking are based on symbol manipulation processes. This assumption has several drawbacks, such as the issue of w...
Since conventional historical records have been written assuming human readers, they are not well-suited for computers to collect and process automatically. If computers could und...
Katsuko T. Nakahira, Masashi Matsui, Yoshiki Mikam...
The enforcement of semantic integrity constraints in data and knowledge bases constitutea a major performance bottleneck. Integrity constraint simplification methods aim at reduci...
We propose an illumination invariant and rotation insensitive texture representation based on a Markovian textural model. A texture is aligned with its dominant orientation and te...
maintain awareness of its environment for a long period of time. Additionally, knowledge-intensive agents must be engineered such that their knowledge can be easily updated as envi...