The Polar project has the aim of designing a parallel, ODMG compatible object database server. This paper describes the server requirements and investigates issues in designing a s...
Monitoring data streams in a distributed system is the focus of much research in recent years. Most of the proposed schemes, however, deal with monitoring simple aggregated values...
Different people or objects may share identical names in the real world, which causes confusion in many applications. It is a nontrivial task to distinguish those objects, especia...
As the use of applications employing video contents becomes widespread, it is crucial for representation systems to be able to handle video effectively and flexibly. In this pape...
Nowadays, ontologies are used in a lot of diverse research fields. They provide with the capability to describe a huge set of information contents. Therefore, several approaches f...