—In this paper we present a scalable and distributed system for image retrieval based on visual features and annotated text. This system is the core of the SAPIR project. Its arc...
This paper presents the concept and an evaluation of a novel approach to support students to understand complex spatial relations and to learn unknown terms of a domain-specific t...
There are many emerging database applications that require accurate selectivity estimation of approximate string matching queries. Edit distance is one of the most commonly used s...
This paper presents an approach for building consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent has its own conceptualizat...
We present a universal mechanism that can be combined with existing trust models to extend their capabilities towards efficient modelling of the situational (contextdependent) tr...