Visual servoing is a technique that uses computer vision to acquire visual information (by camera) and a control system with closed loop circuit to control robots. One typical application of visual servoing is tracking ...

The most basic meaning of "multimodality" is the use of multiple means of information to compose an "artifact", a man-made object that expresses a concept. In our day-to-day life, most media outlets use multimedia to express ...

The decision support tools are importants in many domains of our society. But there is a need to make users understand the decisions made by those tools in order to increase the faith of the users on the results. In the ...

The good results obtained by the fuzzy approaches applied in the analysis of time series (TS) has contributed significantly to the growth of the area. Although there are satisfactory results in TS analysis with methods ...

The techniques of computer vision have been used more and more by the industries in order to aid the automation of their processes; however, the implementation of computer vision techniques has several difficulties according ...

In Computer Science, ontologies are used for knowledge representation in a number of applications, aiming to structure and handle domain semantics through models shared by humans and computational systems. Although traditional ...

Recently, there is an enormous amount of scientific material written in textual format and published in electronic ways (paper on proceedings and articles on journals). In the biomedical field, researchers need to analyse ...

Currently in the medical field there is a large amount of unstructured information (i.e., in textual format). Regarding the large volume of data, it makes it impossible for doctors and specialists to analyze manually all ...

Information extraction (IE) is one of the many applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP); it focuses on processing texts in order to retrieve specific information about a certain entity or concept. One of its ...

Resources sharing is one of the main characteristics of Automated Manufacturing Systems (SMA), this characteristic can be a synonym of advantages but on the other hand it may lead to the problem of deadlock. Several papers ...