We describe a two-level client-side cache for composite objects mapped as views of a relational database. A semantic model, the Structural Model, is used to specify joins on the r...
In multiagent systems ontologies are essential because they facilitate tasks like communications and reasoning. In this paper, inspired by studies in cognitive psychology, we pres...
We propose a first attempt to classify events in static images by integrating scene and object categorizations. We define an event in a static image as a human activity taking pla...
Relational database systems represent the current standard technology for implementing database applications. Now that the object-oriented paradigm becomes more and more mature in...
A new formalism for building network models in Prolog is proposed. It is based on a new semantic interpretation of the Prolog variables and clauses, which are used to represent th...