Current image retrieval systems do not provide users with adequate interfaces able to reduce the semantic gap existing between the high-level semantics of images (as perceived by t...
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) [Aya01] is an W3C [W3C03] specification for authoring multimedia documents. Although SMIL has XML like syntactic constructs...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
As more data (especially scientific data) is digitized and put on the Web, the importance of tracking and sharing its provenance metadata grows. Besides capturing the annotation pr...
Li Ding, Jie Bao, James Michaelis, Jun Zhao, Debor...
: Many model management tasks, e.g., schema matching or merging, require the manual handling of metadata. Given the diversity of metadata, its many different representations and mo...