We discuss the problems associated with managing ontologies in distributed environments such as the Web. The Web poses unique problems for the use of ontologies because of the rap...
This paper addresses the problem of exploration and mapping of an unknown environment by multiple robots. The mapping algorithm is an on-line approach to likelihood maximization t...
Reid G. Simmons, David Apfelbaum, Wolfram Burgard,...
Database schema integration is significant not only in building multidatabase systems but also in data warehousing. Metadata, which define schemas, are normally involved in the su...
The concept of the Virtual University offers a new learning environment for distance education. All the functionalities of a conventional university are available to the students ...
Preliminary work by the authors made use of the so-called "Manhattan world" assumption about the scene statistics of city and indoor scenes. This assumption stated that ...