Many tasks on the semantic web require the user to choose concepts from a limited vocabulary e.g. for describing an indexed resource or for use in semantic search. Semantic autocom...
—This paper proposes the sequential context inference (SCI) algorithm for Markov random field (MRF) image analysis. This algorithm is designed primarily for fast inference on an...
When implementing persistent objects on a relational database, a major performance issue is prefetching data to minimize the number of roundtrips to the database. This is especial...
Since several years, ubiquitous computing and pervasive computing has emerged and, in particular, context-aware computing. Using mobile devices, the context is perpetually evolvin...
In many types of activities, communicative and material activities are so intertwined that the one cannot be understood without taking the other into account. This is true of mari...