Image Retrieval by Content as an Anticipatory System

University Politehnica of Bucharest, Computer Science and Engineering Dept. Splaiul Independentei 313, sector 6, 060042, Bucharest, Romania

Image retrieval by content represents a part of a multimedia database management system. The components of the image retrieval by content could be seen as anticipatory processes. Each component could anticipate its own evolutionary or functional process or the evolutionary or functional process of other component. This paper presents the anticipatory aspects of the components of an image retrieval by content system.