Boolean layer cakes. Proceedings ORDAL '96

Two Layer Cakes

The penetration of the Semantic Web into bioinformatics is not like other disciplines. Given critical data resources such as the Gene Ontology (GO) and the challenges associated with the explosion in the number biological databases, biologists, as a community, are already familiar with the advantages of ontologies and the challenges of information integration. Rather than starting from the peda...

Proceedings of ICSP ’ 96

FO contours tend to decline over the course of a major intonation phrase’ (MaIP). These FO downtrends form an envelope decomposed of a baseline and a top-line ( Pierrhumbert 1980, Maeda 1976,Cohen and t’Hart 1967). The baseline declination is a non -uniform function. That is, the slope of its angle is greater at the lower level constituents boundaries of the prosodic structure, e.g. at the edge...

In Proceedings of ICDE ’ 96 : The 1996

We present two server initiated protocols to improve the performance of distributed information systems e g WWW Our rst protocol is a hierarchical data dissemination mechanism that allows information to propagate from its producers to servers that are closer to its consumers This dissemination reduces network tra c and balances load amongst servers by exploiting geographic and temporal locality...

Comic Chat (Reprinted from SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings)

Comics have a rich visual vocabulary, and people find them appealing. They are also an effective form of communication. We have built a system, called Comic Chat, that represents on-line communications in the form of comics. Comic Chat automates numerous aspects of comics generation, including balloon construction and layout, the placement and orientation of comic characters, the default select...

Proceedings of Ecai-96 Workshop: Empirical Ai Programme Committee