If XML is to play the critical role of the lingua franca for Internet data interchange that many predict, it is necessary to start designing and adopting benchmarks allowing the c...
Our current concern is a scalable infrastructure for information retrieval (IR) with up-to-date retrieval results in the presence of frequent, continuous updates. Timely processin...
Recent advancements in video and audio codec technologies (e.g., RealVideo [18]) make multimedia streaming possible across a wide range of network conditions. With an increasing t...
Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Hoi-sheung Wilson So, Byungho...
Metadata are widely used in order to fully exploit information resources available on corporate intranets or the Internet. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) aims at facilit...
Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Kar...
Abstract. The upper-level ontologies are theories that capture the most common concepts, which are relevant for many of the tasks involving knowledge extraction, representation, an...