This paper describes how the handling of visual media objects is implemented in the visual information retrieval project VizIR. Essentially, four areas are concerned: media access...
The maintenanceofmaterializedviews in largescale environments composed of numerous heterogeneous information sources ISs, such as the WWW, has importance for the new breed of in...
There are many in the information systemsdiscipline who believe that user participation is necessary for successful systems development. However, it has been suggested that this b...
Traditional file system development is difficult. Stackable file systems promise to ease the development of file systems by offering a mechanism for incremental development. Unfor...
Boolean notions of correctness are formalized by preorders on systems. Quantitative measures of correctness can be formalized by realvalued distance functions between systems, wher...