Modeling Complex Data for Creating Information -

Résumé :
J.-E DUBOIS and N. GERSHON As with Volume 1 in this series, this book was inspired by the Symposium on Communications and Computer Aided Systems held at the 14th International CODATA Conference in September 1994 in Chambery, France. This book was conceived and influenced by the discussions at the Symposium and most of the contributions were written following the Conference. Whereas the first volume dealt with the numerous challenges facing the information revolution, especially its communication aspects, this one provides an insight into the recent tools provided by computer science for handling the complex aspects of scientific and technological data. This volume, Modeling Complex Data for Creating Information, is concerned with real and virtual objects often involved with data handling processes encountered frequently in modeling physical phenomena and systems behavior. Topics concerning modeling complex data for creating information include: ? Object oriented approach for structuring data and knowledge ? Imprecision and uncertainty in information systems ? Fractal modeling and shape and surface processing ? Symmetry applications for molecular data The choice of these topics reflects recent developments in information systems technologies. One example is object oriented technology. Recently, research, development and applications have been using object-oriented modeling for computer handling of data and data management. Object oriented technology offers increasingly easy-to-use software applications and operating systems. As a result, science and technology research and applications can now provide more flexible and effective services.

Sommaire:
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 2D Images.- 6 : Symmetry Concepts and Applications.- Deducing Molecular Symmetries with the Help of Topochromatic Permutations.- Chirbase: A Database Utilizing a Molecular Recognition Approach for Selection of a Chiral Chromatographic System.- Global Recognition of the Chromatographic Profiles of Complex Matrices.- Morphology Recognition by Means of Chiral Gas Chromatography.- Quantum Chemistry Techniques Applied to the Modeling of the Enantioselective Hydrog?nation Mechanism of A-Ketoesters.