Partitioning within a B-tree, based on an artificial leading key column and combined with online reorganization, can be exploited during external merge sort for accurate deep read...
The Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) 2006 is aimed at evaluating systems able to decide whether the responses of a Question Answering (QA) system are correct or not. Since most of ...
Consider any logical system, what is its natural repertoire of logical operations? This question has been raised in particular for first-order logic and its extensions with genera...
In this paper we study the modelling of consensus reaching in a ‘soft’ environment, i.e. when the individual testimonies are expressed as fuzzy preference relations. Here cons...
Mario Fedrizzi, Michele Fedrizzi, Ricardo A. Marqu...
This paper describes a new approach to the integration and control of continuously operating visual processes. Visual processes are expressed as transformations which map signals ...
James L. Crowley, Jean Marc Bedrune, Morten Bekker...