An input to the conceptual database design phase contains a description of the target database. This description is usually given in some natural language, for instance in English...
Science aims to develop an accurate understanding of reality through a variety of rigorously empirical and formal methods. Ontologies are used to formalize the meaning of terms wit...
One of the standard basic steps in drawing hierarchical graphs is to invert some arcs of the given graph to make the graph acyclic. We discuss exact and parameterized algorithms fo...
The Circle Hough Transform (CHT) has become a common method for circle detection in numerous image processing applications. Because of its drawbacks, various modifications to the b...
The purpose of this appendix is to introduce (in a compact manner) the syntax and semantics of the most prominent DLs occurring in this handbook. More information and explanations...