Since the early Sixties and Seventies it has been known that the regular and context-free languages arc characterized by definability in the monadic second-order theory of certain...
literal: Let p be a proposition. Then p and -p are literals. clause: A clause is a disjunction of literals. Horn Clause: A Horn Clause is a clause in which there is at most one po...
: The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even paradoxical or high conflicting sources of information has always been and still remains of primal importan...
The monopolist’s theory of optimal single-item auctions for agents with independent private values can be summarized by two statements. The first is from Myerson [8]: the optim...
We develop a general theory of spatially-variant (SV) mathematical morphology for binary images in the Euclidean space. The basic SV morphological operators (that is, SV erosion, S...