We advance a theory of inductive reasoning based on similarity, and test it on arguments involving mammal categories. To measure similarity, we quantified the overlap of neural activation in left Brodmann area 37 (LBA37) in response to pictures of different categories; the choice of LBA37 is motivated by previous literature. The theory was tested against probability judgments for 160 arguments ...

In this paper we prove lower bounds on randomized mul-tiparty communication complexity, both in the blackboardmodel (where each message is written on a blackboard for allplayers to see) and (mainly) in the message-passing model,where messages are sent player-to-player. We introduce anew technique for proving such bounds, called symmetriza-tion, which is natural, intuitiv...

The algorithms of computational geometry are designed for a machine model with exact real arithmetic. Substituting floating point arithmetic for the assumed real arithmetic may cause implementations to fail. Although this is well known, there is no comprehensive documentation of what can go wrong and why. In this extended abstract, we study a simple incremental algorithm for planar convex hulls...

Collaborative tagging is increasingly drawing attention as a promising source of taxonomic information; it is often referred to as folksonomy. A tag is information that is added to a resource (such as pictures, a web page, or blog entries); a tag can be represented as an RDF statement. However, no explicit study has been undertaken to bridge the gap between annotated tags and RDF statements. Th...

1047-3203/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jvcir.2008.09.002 q Part of this work has been funded by the French AN 01-01 (ESSOR). * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (T paristech.fr (B. Pesquet-Popescu). This paper deals with distributed video coding (DVC) for multi-view sequences. DVC of multi-view sequences is a recent field of research, w...

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This paper describes research into structured, knowledge-based image interpretation. An integrated framework has been developed, within which most tasks associated with the automatic interpretation and analysis of lateral skull X-ray images (cephalometry) can be performed. A model-based image analysis system makes use of a blackboard architecture and multiple knowledge sources. Its performance ...

Traditional approaches to semantics give a logical, settheoretic account of category conjunction, where an item is a member of a conjunction A&B only if it is a member of both single categories A and B. However, people do not always follow this logical approach when classifying items in conjunctions. For example, Hampton (1988) found that people typically classify blackboards as non-members of ...

We introduce Slant, a system that integrates more than a decade of research into computational creativity, and specifically story generation, by connecting subsystems that deal with plot, figuration, and the narrative discourse using a blackboard. The process of integrating these systems highlights differences in the representation of story and has led to a better understanding of how story can...