In this work, we present a semantic query optimization technique to improve the efficiency of the evaluation of a subset of SQL:1999 recursive queries. Using datalog notation, we c...
Abstract. Studies of different term extractors on a corpus of the biomedical domain revealed decreasing performances when applied to highly technical texts. Facing the difficulty o...
Answer set programming is a form of declarative programming that has proven very successful in succinctly formulating and solving complex problems. Although mechanisms for represen...
Kim Bauters, Jeroen Janssen, Steven Schockaert, Di...
A new approach for the segmentation of still and video SAR images is described in this paper. A priori knowledge about the objects present in the image, e.g., target, shadow, and ...
Discovering and studying emergent phenomena are among the most important activities in social research. Replicating this phenomenon in "the lab" using simulation is an i...