The exponential growth of data demands scalable infrastructures capable of indexing and searching rich content such as text, music, and images. A promising direction is to combine...
Online services such as web search, news portals, and ecommerce applications face the challenge of providing highquality experiences to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent ef...
Abstract. In the framework of possibility theory, a tool named `fuzzy pattern matching' (FPM) has been proposed in the eighties and since successfully used in flexible queryin...
In a world of wide-scale information sharing, the decentralized coordination has to consolidate a variety of heterogeneity. Shared data are described in different formats, i.e. da...
The abundance of complex media-rich information in state-of-the-art bio-medical sciences underlines the importance of paradigms for organizing, searching, browsing, and assimilati...