In contrast with the growth of plants and trees, human organs can undergo signi cant changes in shape through a variety of global transformations during the growth period, such as...
Conceptual integration—"blending"—is a general cognitive operation on a par with analogy, recursion, mental modeling, conceptual categorization, and framing. It serv...
Abstract. The rational approach to pharmaceutical drug design begins with an investigation of the relationship between chemical structure and biological activity. Information gaine...
Distributed databases operating over wide-area networks such as the Internet, must deal with the unpredictable nature of the performance of communication. The response times of acc...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...
The issue of ®nding similar 3-D surface segments arises in many recent applications of spatial database systems, such as molecular biology, medical imaging, CAD, and geographic i...