An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
This paper discusses some issues related to the planning of a series of grid experiments in the context of the TrebleCLEF project with the aim of improving the comprehension of Mul...
In this paper we study various chain codes, which are representations of binary image contours, in terms of their ability to compress in the best way the contour information using...
When working on a large software system, a programmer typically spends an inordinate amount of time sifting through thousands of artifacts to find just the subset of information n...
In this paper, we present a study which aims at designing a locomotion assistance device that can deliver semantic information about its surrounding environment at any time. As a ...