Linguistic access to uncertain quantitative knowledge about physical properties is provided by dimensional adjectives, e.g. long-short in the spatial and temporal senses, near-far...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
This study presents a content-based image retrieval system IMALBUM based on local region of interest called object of interest (OOI). Each segmented or user-selected OOI is indexe...
The Web Services world consists of loosely-coupled distributed systems which adapt to ad-hoc changes by the use of service descriptions that enable opportunistic service discovery...
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has been validated to be effective on many small scale text collections. However, little evidence has shown its effectiveness on unsampled large sca...