Knowledge compilation [6, 5, 14, 8] consists in transforming a problem offline into a form which is tractable online. In this paper, we introduce new structures, based on the notio...
The algorithmic generation of textual descriptions of image sequences requires conceptual knowledge. In our case, a stationary camera recorded image sequences of road traffic scene...
The enforcement of semantic integrity constraints in data and knowledge bases constitutea a major performance bottleneck. Integrity constraint simplification methods aim at reduci...
XTCcmp, the XQuery Compiler of a native XML database system, extends Starburst's well-known Query Graph Model to serve as an internal representation and basis for query restr...