"Long discredited as inadequate illustrations of thought processes more appropriately represented in algebraic or verbal terms, diagrams have enjoyed a renaissance across numerous disciplines--from ...
Have you ever noticed how shopping malls, parking lots, or event venues seem to track the number of people or cars present inside? You might think they use an AI camera to count them, but in reality, ...
IN a set of twelve diagrams issued under the above title, the author has supplied a convenience which has been wanted for some time past in the class-teaching of elementary science, thus removing a ...
Binary decision diagrams (BDDs) are directed acyclic graphs used to represent functions over boolean variables. They have enjoyed widespread success in a number of domains, including hardware ...
Abstract: Proactively searching for objects like humans may be a basic requirement for intelligent service robots. The path planning during the searching process can be modeled as a Partially ...
Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...
Abstract: Background: In the modeling of object oriented software systems, the UML object diagrams are recognized very useful to complement class diagrams. However, up to now, there exists only one ...
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