The management of voluminous heterogeneous resources and services in the web environment is a complex task. Semantic knowledge is playing an increasing important role in order to h...
As modern multi-tier systems are becoming increasingly large and complex, it becomes more difficult for system analysts to understand the overall behavior of the system, and diag...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is about to emerge as a new standard for databases, the problem of providing solid logical grounds for XML query languages arises. For the ...
Spatial language video retrieval is an important real-world problem that is also a natural test bed for evaluating semantic structures for natural language descriptions of motion ...