A text retrieval method called the thematic geographical search method has been developed and applied to a Japanese encyclopedia called the World Encyclopædia. In this method, th...
Pervasive societal dependency on large-scale, unbounded network systems, the substantial risks of such dependency, and the growing sophistication of system intruders, have focused...
Richard C. Linger, Nancy R. Mead, Howard F. Lipson
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
This paper is concerned with synthetic agents interacting with virtual environments, called animated creatures. The animated creatures are articulated graphical gures that are eq...
The performance of current transaction processing systems largely depends on human experts for administration and tuning. These experts have to specify a multitude of internal con...