Semantic Web technologies facilitate data integration over a large number of sources with decentralised and loose coordination, ideally leading to interlinked datasets which descri...
The object model is a very popular paradigm for building distributed applications. Several standardisation efforts are underway that define architectures for distributed computing...
This paper describes the results of a study where the impact of Object-Oriented design on software quality characteristics is experimentally evaluated. A suite of metrics for OO d...
Many real-world applications call for learning predictive relationships from multi-modal data. In particular, in multi-media and web applications, given a dataset of images and th...
In the Database-As-a-Service (DAS) model, clients store their database contents at servers belonging to potentially untrusted service providers. To maintain data confidentiality, ...