For many years the Modified Mercalli (MM) scale has been used to describe the observed effects of sizeable earthquakes on buildings and people. Initially isoseismal lines of the effects were added to maps by hand. Some objective methods have been proposed eg. DeRubeis et al. [14], Brillinger [2, 3, 4, 6], Wald et al.[33], Pettenati et al. [25]. The work presented here develops such methods furt...

Recognizing useful modular robot configurations composed of hundreds of modules is a significant challenge. Matching a new modular robot configuration to a library of known configurations is essential in identifying and applying control schemes. We present three different algorithms to address the problem of (a) matching and (b) mapping new robot configurations onto a library of known configura...

Situational methods are approaches to the development of software systems that are designed and constructed to fit particular circumstances that often refer to project characteristics. One common way to create situational methods is to reuse method components, which are the building blocks of development methods. For this purpose, method components have to be stored in a method base, and then r...

Following the growing interest in \corpus-based" approaches to computational linguistics, a number of studies have recently appeared on the topic of automatic term recognition or extraction. Because a successful term recognition method has to be based on proper insights into the nature of terms, studies of automatic term recognition not only contribute to the applications of computational lingu...

A knowledge representation scheme, QUORUM (Qualitative reasoning Of Repair and Understanding of Mechanisms), has been constructed to apply qualitative techniques to the mechanical domain, which is an area that has been neglected in the qualitative reasoning field. In addition, QUORUM aims at providing foundations for building a repair expert system. The problem in constructing such a representa...

This paper describes a procedure to merge two STEP/AP EXPRESS schemata, using automated methods to assist the merging process. The desire to integrate or merge two schemata or ontologies is very common today (for example, it may be necessary to integrate two models describing car manufacturing from two different car manufacturing companies who just merged and need a common car manufacturing mod...

This paper describes research into techniques for automating the classification and identification of humpback whales from tail fin images. The need for a system to aid in the visual identification process is becoming greater as the number of whales encountered during wildlife studies increases. Currently manual handling of large numbers of photographs, including matching the whales in each new...

We address the problem of automating the process of deciding whether two data schema elements match (that is, refer to the same actual object or concept), and propose several methods for combining evidence computed by multiple basic matchers. One class of methods uses Bayesian networks to account for the conditional dependency between the similarity values produced by individual matchers that u...

This paper deals with Automatic Face Recognition (AFR), which means automatic identification of a person from a digital image. Our work focuses on an application for Czech News Agency that will facilitate to identify a person in a large database of photographs. The main goal of this paper is to propose some modifications and improvements of existing face recognition approaches and to evaluate t...

Automatic image colorization consists in adding colors to a new greyscale image without any user intervention. The problem, stated like this, is ill-posed, in the sense that one cannot guess the colors to assign to a greyscale image without any prior knowledge. Indeed, many objects can have different colors: not