Critical kernels constitute a general framework settled in the of abstract complexes for the study of parallel thinning in any dimension. We take advantage of the properties of thi...
In image retrieval, global features related to color or texture are commonly used to describe the image content. The use of interest points in contentbased image retrieval allows ...
It is well-known that default reasoning and preference-based decision making both make use of preferential relations between possible worlds resp. alternatives. In this paper, we ...
Abstract. We provide a general framework for constructing identitybased and broadcast encryption systems. In particular, we construct a general encryption system called spatial enc...
The semiring-based formalism to model soft constraint has been introduced in 1995 by Ugo Montanari and the authors of this paper. The idea was to make constraint programming more f...