Abstract. Approximation has been identified as a potential way of reducing the complexity of logical reasoning. Here we explore approximation for speeding up instance retrieval in...
This paper introduces the PeerAccess framework for reasoning about authorization in open distributed systems, and shows how a parameterization of the framework can be used to reas...
Marianne Winslett, Charles C. Zhang, Piero A. Bona...
Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often i...
We describe a new invariant-based data model for image databases under our approach for shape-based retrieval. The data model relies on contours description of the image shape, an...
Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving tow...