During the 1980's there was a lot of activity in the area of Statistical Databases, focusing mostly on socio-economic type applications, such as census data, national product...
Conceptual design involves requirements analysis, functional specification, and architectural design. It remains informal and poorly understood. We studied the conceptual design a...
Abstract. In this paper a rigorous mathematical framework of deterministic annealing and mean-field approximation is presented for a general class of partitioning, clustering and ...
The extraction of reusable software components from existing systems is an attractive idea. The goal of the work in this paper is not to extract a component automatically, but to ...
—A major research subject in image databases is to support efficient and effective access to images based on their visual content. In color image databases, this requires to sup...
Alberto Del Bimbo, Mauro Mugnaini, Pietro Pala, F....