This book presents a guide to the extensive literature on the topic of semirings and includes
a complete bibliography. It serves as a complement to the existing monographs and a point …

To improve medical image sharing in applications such as e-learning or remote diagnosis
aid, we propose to make the image more usable by watermarking it with a digest of its …

This paper presents a divide-and-conquer ray-traced volulne rendering algorithrn and a
parallel inlage cornpositing nlethod, along with their implenlentation and perforinance on …

In the field of human intelligence, officers use an alphanumeric scale, known as the
Admiralty System, to rate the credibility of messages and the reliability of their sources …

A new watershed algorithm based on mathematical morphology is proposed and applied to
cellular image segmentation. The improvement segmentation method of the watershed …

In this paper, we take an interest in representation and treatment of imprecision and
uncertainty in order to propose an original approach to approximate reasoning. This work …

This thesis aims at improving the definition and evaluation of deceptive strategies that can
manipulate information. Using conceptual, formal and experimental resources, I analyze …

In the literature, several studies have focused on introducing fuzzy extensions to the
relational and/or object database models in order to store the imprecision. Indeed, on one …

In common language, as well as in knowledge–based systems, the truth of a proposition can
be evaluated in a qualitative manner using adverbs usually represented on a scale of …

In this article, qualitative, symbolic and linguistic models for knowledge representation are
presented as well as their applications. Such models are useful in decision making …