Abstract. This paper describes a few ideas concerned with geographical information systems (GIS) development. Those ideas come from a GIS development project named GeKon, which is ...
Many authors have proposed using byte code rewriting as a way of adapting or extending the behaviour of Java There are toolkits available that simplify this process and raise the ...
In this paper, we examine emerging frontiers in the evolution of content-based retrieval systems that rely on an intelligent infrastructure. Here, we refer to intelligence as the ...
This work may be seen as a further proof of the versatility of the relational database model. Here, we add XQuery to the catalog of languages which RDBMSs are able to "speak&...
We propose a generic presentation system for adaptive educational hypermedia that is highly independent from domain knowledge representation and application state management. Our a...