We present a system that optimizes sequences of related client requests by combining small requests into larger ones, thus reducing per-request overhead. The system predicts upcom...
With the proliferation of geographic data and resources over the Internet, there is an increasing demand for integration services that allow a transparent access to massive reposit...
XML stream processing has recently become popular for many applications such as selective dissemination of information. Several approaches have been proposed and most of them are ...
We introduce an event gazetteer which stores and presents “locations in time”. Each event is coded with attributes of event type, location, actor, and beginning and ending tim...
This paper focuses on a grammar-based approach to semantic interpretation, which combines the notions of robust and weighted parsing. In restricted domains of application in infor...