One issue involved in accessing multiple heterogeneous information sources is how to integrate the retrieved data. SIMS, an information mediator, handles this problem by mapping t...
In realizing video retrieval system, the crucial point is how to provide an effective access method of video contents. This paper focuses on Japanese cooking instruction utterance...
In many Earth observation missions, a large amount of data is collected by the on-board sensors, and must be transmitted to ground through a channel with limited capacity; in this...
Abstract: In this paper, we study adaptive evaluation techniques for querying XMLbased electronic catalogs, and show, by means of experiments performed on real-world catalogs, that...
We present a maintenance scheduling problem arising from semi-conductor manufacturing which is characterized by low resource contention and multiple complex objectives and prefere...