User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Many software applications have a component based on database management systems in which information is generally handled through SQL queries embedded in the application code. Wh...
Abstract. Behaviour specification in object-oriented design clearly benefits from the use of a formal, or semi-formal, visual specification language. This is attested by the ado...
Abstract. The growing size of electronically available text corpora like companies’ intranets or the WWW has made information access a hot topic within computational linguistics....
Design patterns are micro architectures that have proved to be reliable, easy-to implement and robust. There is a need in science and industry for recognizing these patterns. We p...