Effective usage of multimedia digital libraries has to deal with the problem of building efficient content annotation and retrieval tools. MOM (Multimedia Ontology Manager) is a ...
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using a limited number of relevance judgments. Recent work has demonstrated that one can accurately estimate average precis...
Real world software systems undergo, during their lifetime, to repeated maintenance activities. Due to the market pressure and to the need for having back the system operational i...
A simple extension to the relational model that permits metadata (more generally metaknowledge) to be stored and manipulated as first class data is proposed. The accompanying que...
Undeniable signatures were introduced in 1989 by Chaum and van Antwerpen to limit the self-authenticating property of digital signatures. An extended concept – the convertible un...