Video data management (VDM) is fast becoming one of seminar topics in multimedia information systems. In VDM systems, there exists an important need for novel techniques and mechan...
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
Abstract Method invocation mechanism is one of the essential features in objectoriented programming languages. This mechanism contributes to data encapsulation and code reuse, but ...
Recent research in domain-independent information extraction holds the promise of an automatically-constructed structured database derived from the Web. A query system based on th...
Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...