Web-based information systems provide to their users the ability to interleave querying and browsing during their information discovery efforts. The MIX system provides an API cal...
Databases in real life are often neither entirely closed-world nor entirely open-world. Indeed, databases in an enterprise are typically partially closed, in which a part of the d...
As a computational model of natural language communication, Database Semantics1 (DBS) includes a hearer mode and a speaker mode. For the content to be mapped into language expressi...
We address the problem of detecting irregularities in visual data, e.g., detecting suspicious behaviors in video sequences, or identifying salient patterns in images. The term &qu...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...