Advances in image acquisition and storage technology have led to tremendous growth in significantly large and detailed image databases. These images, if analyzed, can reveal usefu...
Little guidance and few methods are available to refine a set of software requirements into an architecture satisfying those requirements. Part of the challenge stems from the fac...
Ontologies are becoming increasingly prevalent and important in a wide range of e-commerce applications. E-commerce applications are using ontologies to support parametric searches...
The design of external index structures for one- and multidimensional extended objects is a long and well studied subject in basic database research. Today, more and more commercia...
The work presented here is part of a project that aims at the definition of a methodology for developing realtime software systems based on UML. In fact, being relatively easy to ...