Specification-based retrieval provides exact contentoriented access to component libraries but requires too much deductive power. Specification-based browsing evades this bottlene...
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...
Progressive processing allows a system to satisfy a set of requests under time pressure by limiting the amount of processing allocated to each task based on a predefined hierarchic...
We describe a research project for the development of a system for cataloguing, retrieval and interactive manipulation of 30 models of pathological human organs from a distributed...
M. Crudele, Gordon Clapworthy, Meleagros A. Krokos...
Non-uniform query languages make searching over heterogeneous information sources difficult. Our approach is to allow a user to compose Boolean queries in one rich front-end lang...