We consider spatial databases in the plane that can be defined by polynomial constraint formulas. Motivated by applications in geographic information systems, we investigate line...
The presence of XML in many recent hypermedia management tools and methods (W3I3, SMIL, etc.) shows better than ever that both structural and textual criteria will continue to pla...
Jacques Le Maitre, Yves Marcoux, Elisabeth Murisas...
A new language and inference algorithm for stochastic modeling is presented. This work refines and generalizes the stochastic functional language originally proposed by [1]. The l...
In this paper we present an e-librarian service which is able to retrieve multimedia resources from a knowledge base in a more efficient way than by browsing through an index or by...
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...