— Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is quickly becoming a mainstream approach to software development. At the same time, there is a massive shift from desktop applicati...
Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
The advent of the cooperating IP-enabled heterogeneous radio networks will offer, under the “Beyond 3G” vision, ubiquitous services. In this new challenging context, a novel a...
Karim El-Khazen, Fabienne Lefevre, David Garrec, M...
The emergence of new media technologies in combination with enhanced information sharing functionality offered by the Web provides new possibilities for cross-media annotations. T...
— The trend in Grid computing towards more data intensive applications, accessing more and more relational databases and requiring advanced integration of secondhand and publicly...