People can interact much more readily with a multi-agent system if they can understand it in cognitive terms. Modern work on “BDI agents” emphasizes explicit representation of ...
Tree patterns with full text search form the core of both XQuery Full Text and the NEXI query language. On such queries, users expect a relevance-ranked list of XML elements as an...
Many traditional relevance feedback approaches for CBIR can only achieve limited short-term performance improvement without benefiting long-term performance. To remedy this limita...
In some domains, Information Extraction (IE) from texts requires syntactic and semantic parsing. This analysis is computationally expensive and IE is potentially noisy if it applie...
Previous research has demonstrated that space can be saved in a MultiMedia DataBase Management System (MMDBMS) by storing some of the data items virtually, meaning they are stored...