Modeling Complex Data for Creating Information

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
How to Structure Data: The Object Oriented Approach (A Survey)....Pages 3-8
Intelligent Agents : A New Step Towards Data and Knowledge Organization....Pages 9-14
Description and Applications of an Object-Oriented Model PDM....Pages 15-24
A Step Towards the Client/Server Model: The OODE Approach....Pages 25-30
From Bibliographic Data Bases to Knowledge Bases....Pages 31-38
Imprecision and Uncertainty....Pages 39-46
Ill-Defined Data in Information Systems : From Fuzzy Pattern Matching to Data Fusion....Pages 47-54
Error and Uncertainty in Physical Measurements....Pages 55-64
Fuzzy Automata and Grammars: Manipulation of Uncertain Knowledge....Pages 65-78
Data Processing in Chemistry with Neural Networks : An Alternate Way in Cases of Fuzzy Data or Incomplete Models....Pages 79-88
Clean-up of Spectro-Structural Databases using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 89-94
Computer Integrated and Information Aided Investigation Activities....Pages 95-104
A Cooperative Design Environment Based on an Active Repository....Pages 105-110
A Reuse-Based Schema Construction System....Pages 111-118
The Olympios Model for the Analysis, Specification and Design of an Information and Decision System....Pages 119-124
Impediments to an Elusive Dream : Computer Access to Numeric Data for Engineering Materials....Pages 125-132
Scientific Databases: Tentative Analysis of Productivity....Pages 133-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-146
Shape — Data Processing in the Natural Sciences and Technology....Pages 147-154
3D Modeling of Complex Natural Objects....Pages 155-168
Quantitative Description of the Shape of Interfaces in Molecular Complexes....Pages 169-178
Front Matter....Pages 145-146
The Genetic Code — Passing from One Dimension to Three Dimensions....Pages 179-190
A New Method for Unbiased Comparison of Protein Structures....Pages 191-198
Simulation of Growth and Form of Sponges and Corals and the Influence of the Physical Environment....Pages 199-208
Fractal Shape Description using Compact Data Sets....Pages 209-222
Expert System of Image Processing-Applications to the Reconstruction of 3D Images from 2D Images....Pages 223-236
Deducing Molecular Symmetry by Topochromatic Permutations....Pages 237-244
Chirbase : A Database Utilizing a Molecular Recognition Approach for Selection of a Chiral Chromatographic System....Pages 245-250
Global Recognition of the Chromatographic Profiles of Complex Matrices....Pages 251-260
Morphology Recognition by Means of Chiral Gas Chromatography....Pages 261-268
Quantum Chemistry Techniques Applied to the Modelling of the Enantioselective Hydrogenation Mechanism of α-Ketoesters....Pages 269-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-277