In the reuse domain, the necessity of finding a new, more suitable description language opposes the need to make reuse an accepted practice, and thus related to standards. This pa...
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...
We present a new Bayesian approach to object identification: variants. By object identification we mean the detection of the member (regular variant) of a given statistical popula...
The task of identifying synonymous relations and objects, or Synonym Resolution (SR), is critical for high-quality information extraction. The bulk of previous SR work assumed str...
Determining the position and orientation of a workpiece relative to a manufacturing device is a prerequisite for machining path planning. If the workpiece is freeform and if it co...