Today, any large object-oriented software system is built using frameworks. Yet, designing frameworks and defining their interaction with clients remains a difficult task. A prima...
This paper presents a new approach to text processing, based on textemes. These are atomic text units generalising the concepts of character and glyph by merging them in a common ...
: We describe the architecture of a relational databasesystem that is extensible by user-defined data types and operations, including relation operations. The central concept is to...
We develop a hierarchical approach to planning for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) in which a policy is represented as a hierarchical finite-state control...
Ontology alignment is regarded as one of the core tasks in many Web services. It is concerned with finding the correspondences between separate ontologies by identifying concepts ...