Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...
Abstract. Recent work on analyzing query logs shows that a significant fraction of queries are temporal, i.e., relevancy is dependent on time, and temporal queries play an importan...
Semantic annotation of digital objects within large multimedia collections is a difficult and challenging task. We describe a method for semi-automatic annotation of images and ap...
While in most planning approaches goals and plans are different objects, it is often useful to specify goals that combine declarative conditions with procedural plans. In this pap...
At Rice University, we have undertaken a project to construct a framework for generating high-level problem solving languages that can achieve high performance on a variety of pla...