In this paper, we describe the design of a reusable IR framework, called FIRE, that is being implemented to facilitate the development of IR systems. In addition, FIRE is designed...
Many real–world information needs are naturally formulated as queries with temporal constraints. However, the structured temporal background information needed to support such c...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
The complexity of deploying high-performance spatial structures in transactional DBMS environments has motivated researchers to experiment with the idea of reusing the effort inve...
Repositories play a pivotal role in an integrated reuse- based application development environment. Reusing software components implies their persistent storage and maintenance, a...
Panos Constantopoulos, Martin Doerr, Yannis Vassil...
We present a novel method for interactive retrieval of 3D shapes using physical objects. Our method is based on simple physical 3D interaction with a set of tangible blocks. As th...