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Justification, Legitimacy, and Social Embeddedness: Locke and Rawls on Society and the State
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
CTP: A New Constraint-Based Formalism for Conditional, Temporal Planning
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-10)
Temporal constraints pose a challenge for conditional planning, because it is necessary for a conditional planner to determine whether a candidate plan will satisfy the specified temporal constraints. This can be difficult, ...
Automatic Thematic Extractor
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-07)
We have created a system that identifies musical “keywords” or themes. The system searches for all patterns composed of melodic (intervallic for our purposes) repetition in a piece. This process generally uncovers a large ...
Selling Sanity Through Gender: The Psychodynamics of Psychotropic Advertising
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
This paper provides a brief visual history of the ways women patients, and specifically women patients whose marital status is identified in conjunction with their “illness,” have been constructed as abnormal in the images ...
Analyzing scenery images by monotonic tree
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2003-04)
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been an active research area in the last ten years, and a variety of techniques have been developed. However, retrieving images on the basis of low-level features has proven ...
Automatic Annotation and Retrieval of Images
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
Although a variety of techniques have been developed for content-based image retrieval (CBIR), automatic image retrieval by semantics still remains a challenging problem. We propose a novel approach for semantics-based ...
Cost Estimation for Queries Experiencing Multiple Contention States in Dynamic Multidatabase Environments
(Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2003-02)
Accurate query cost estimation is crucial to query optimization in a multidatabase system. Several estimation techniques for a static environment have been suggested in the literature. To develop a cost model for a dynamic ...