Associations are a widely used construct of object-oriented languages. However, the meaning of associations for conceptual modelling of application domains remains unclear. This pa...
A Pilot Question Answering Task has been activated in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2004 with a twofold objective. In the first place, the evaluation of Question Answering ...
Abstract: The paper presents ”Any Input XML Output” (AIXO), a general and flexible software architecture for wrappers. The architecture has been designed to present data sourc...
Complex arithmetic computations, especially if derived from bit-level software descriptions, can be very inefficient if implemented directly in hardware (e.g., by translation of t...
In order to be able to evaluate beforehand the impact of a strategical or tactical move, decision makers need reliable previsional systems. What-if analysis satisfies this need by ...