While many multimedia systems allow the association of semantic annotations with media assets, there is no agreedupon way of sharing these among systems. As an initial step within...
Lynda Hardman, Zeljko Obrenovic, Frank Nack, Brigi...
One of the main goals of design patterns is to design for change. Many design patterns leave some room for future changes and evolutions. The application of design patterns leads ...
The PDF format is commonly used for the exchange of documents on the Web and there is a growing need to understand and extract or repurpose data held in PDF documents. Many system...
We propose union types for statically typed class-based objectoriented languages as a means to enhance the flexibility of subtyping. As its name suggests, a union type can be con...
In many different application areas, e.g. space observation systems or engineering systems of world-wide operating companies, there is a need for an efficient distributed intersect...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...