Full-text information retrieval systems have traditionally been designed for archival environments. They often provide little or no support for adding new documents to an existing...
In this paper, we consider various spatial relationships that are of general interest in pictorial database systems. We present a set of rules that allow us to deduce new relation...
This paper illustrates the use of a post-mortem call-graph profiling tool in the analysis of an SQL query processing application written using BSPIib [4]. Unlike other parallel pro...
Jonathan M. D. Hill, Stephen A. Jarvis, Constantin...
This paper studies a logical framework for automated negotiation between two agents. We suppose an agent who has a knowledge base represented by a logic program. Then, we introduc...
This paper presents a framework for building an ontology to provide semantic interpretations in image contents. The novelty of this framework comes from building a MPEG-7 ontology ...