Modeling Complex Data for Creating Information

One : Information and Data Interplay.- 1 : Structuring Data for Integrated Knowledge-Based Systems.- How To Structure Data : The Object-Oriented Approach.- Intelligent Agents : A New Step Towards Data And Knowledge Organization.- Description And Applications Of An Object-Oriented Model PDM.- A Step Towards The Client/Server Model : The Oode Approach.- From Bibliographic Databases To Knowledge Bases.- 2 : Imprecision and Uncertainty in Information Systems.- Imprecision and Uncertainty.- Ill Defined Data in Information Systems: From Fuzzy Pattern Matching to Data Fusion.- Error and Uncertainty in Physical Measurements.- Fuzzy Automata And Grammars: Manipulation Of Uncertain Knowledge.- Data Processing in Chemistry with Neural Networks.- Clean-Up of Spectro-Structural Databases Using Artificial Neural Networks.- 3 : System Architecture and Evaluation Criteria.- Computer Integrated and Information Aided Investigation Activities.- A Cooperative Design Environment Based on an Active Repository.- A Reuse-Based Schema Construction System.- The Olympios Model for the Analysis, Specification and Design of an Information and Decision System.- Impediments to an Elusive Dream-Computer Access to Numeric Data for Engineering Materials.- Scientific Databases Tentative Analysis of Productivity.- two : Rigid and Flexible Shapes: Representation and Processing.- 4 : Shape and Surface Processing.- Shape -Data Processing In The Natural Sciences And Technology.- 3D Modeling of Complex Natural Objects.- Quantitative Description of the Shape of Interfaces in Molecular Complexity.- The Genetic Code - Passing from One Dimension to Three Dimensions.- A New Method for Unbiased Comparison of Protein Structures.- Chapters 5 : Fractal Modeling and Image Processing.- Simulation of Growth and form of Sponges and Corals: Influence of the Physical Environment.- Fractal Shape Description Using Compact Data Sets.- Expert System of Image Processing - Applications to the Reconstruction of 3D Images from

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