Résumé. Le choix d’une mesure de proximité entre objets a un impact direct sur les résultats de toute opération de classification, de comparaison, d’évaluation ou de structuration d’un ensemble d’objets. Pour un problème donné, l’utilisateur est amené à choisir une parmi les nombreuses mesures de proximité existantes. Or, selon la notion d’équivalence choisie, comme celle basée sur les préordon...

RÉSUMÉ. Comprendre la capacité des réseaux mobiles à connections intermittentes (ICMN Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks) est important pour bien répondre aux divers besoins d’interactivité et de bande passante des applications mobiles. Un problème pratique concerne la transformation des messages d’une application en paquets prêts à être transmis à travers un ICMN. Dans ce papier, nous pr...

A new concept, fuzzy segments, is introduced which allows for exible segmentation of discrete curves, so taking into account some noise in them. Relying on an arithmetic approach of discrete lines, it generalizes them, admitting that some points are missing. Thus, a larger class of objects is considered. A very e cient detection algorithm for fuzzy segments and its application to curve segmenta...

My previous essay in this series' drew attention to three main areas of inquiry concerning church governance in the first-century church in Rome: (1) an ancient Roman political governance pattern which may have furnished a background for the type of ecclesiastical governance used in that first-century Christian community, (2) pertinent contemporary Christian documents, and (3) ancient non-conte...

This report describes the state of the research and practice in the areas of metadata management systems. Open source and industrial products are presented and compared. Thereout we identified functional and non-functional requirements relevant for the TEAM project. Project co-funded by the European Commission under the “Information Society Technology” Programme, Framework Programme 6. D5: Repo...

136 glasses from the ninth-century monastery of San Vincenzo and its workshops have been analysed by electron microprobe in order to situate the assemblage within the first millennium CE glass making tradition. The majority of the glass compositions can be paralleled by Roman glass from the first to third centuries, with very few samples consistent with later compositional groups. Colours for t...

what reluctantly ventured outside the domain of the standard Nippon collector with the acquisition of the pictured Japanese vase. I will not go into a great descriptive as the pictures speak for themselves. This is a wonderful example of a moriage style Nippon era vase. It is a significant Art Nouveau piece measuring 11 7/8” (30 cm) high and 5” (12.6 cm) wide at the handles and includes a wrap ...

RÉSUMÉ. Un patron d’ingénierie constitue une base de savoir-faire pour résoudre un problème fréquemment rencontré dans des domaines particuliers. L’adaptation de la solution du patron à un cas concret est une opération de réutilisation appelée imitation. Lors de la conception d’un système d’information, une imitation d’un patron de conception (fragment de spécification) doit pouvoir s’intégrer ...