One of the objectives of ooDBMSs is to use type-speci c methods for manipulating objects, in order to maintain the consistency of the database. This is, however, little help for t...
Language is primarily a physical, and more particularly a biological phenomenon. To say that it is primarily so is to say that that is how, in the first instance, it presents itse...
We consider the problem of determining whether two images come from different objects or the same object in the same pose, but under different illumination conditions. We show tha...
ToonTalk is a child-oriented programming language whose environment is an animated virtual world, with objects that children can pick up and use as in a game, such as birds, truck...
To take advantage of the ever-increasing volume of diagrams in electronic form, it is crucial that we have methods for parsing diagrams. Once a structured, content-based descripti...