Peer-to-peer database systems (P2PDBs) aim at providing database services with node autonomy, high availability and loose coupling between participating nodes by building the DBMS...
Query-by-example is the most popular query model for today’s image retrieval systems. A typical query image contains not only relevant objects (e.g., Eiffel Tower), but also ir...
It is traditionally assumed that various sources of linguistic knowledge and their interaction should be formalised in order to be able to convert words into their phonemic repres...
Abstract The application of data mining algorithms needs a goal-oriented preprocessing of the data. In practical applications the preprocessing task is very time consuming and has ...
Static analyses provide the semantic foundation for tools ranging from optimizing compilers to refactoring browsers and advanced debuggers. Unfortunately, developing new analysis ...