How do we know if we can afford a particular purchase? We can find out what the payments might be and check our balances on various accounts, but does this answer the question? Wh...
In the light of image retrieval evolving from text annotation to content-based and from standalone applications to web-based search engines, we foresee the need for deploying cont...
In today's society, people have very little control over what kinds of personal data are collected and stored by various agencies in both the private and public sectors. We de...
Abstract. The aim of the MMiSS project is the construction of a multimedia Internet-based adaptive educational system. Its content will initially cover a whole curriculum in the ar...
Many users and applications require the integration of semi-structured data from autonomous, heterogeneous Web sources. Over the last years mediator systems have emerged that use d...