— XQuery, the defacto XML query language, is a functional language with operational semantics, which precludes the direct application of classical query optimization techniques. ...
Increasing monitoring of transactions, environmental parameters, homeland security, RFID chips and interactions of online users rapidly establishes new data sources and applicatio...
For extracting the characteristics a specific geographic entity, and notably a place, we propose to use dynamic Extreme Tagging Systems in combination with the classic approach of...
ar for abstract concepts, and a number of formally expressed, structural restrictions. Copyright c 2008, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). ...
Enriching knowledge bases with multimedia information makes it possible to complement textual descriptions with visual and audio information. Such complementary information can he...