Many information systems are used in a problem solving context. Examples are travel planning systems, catalogs in electronic commerce, or agenda planning systems. They can be made...
Marc Torrens, Patrick Hertzog, Loic Samson, Boi Fa...
Virtual environments (VEs) allow users to experience and interact with a rich sensory environment, but most virtual worlds contain only sensory information similar to that which w...
Doug A. Bowman, Chris North, Jian Chen, Nicholas F...
We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unrelia...
Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Fran&cc...
Abstract. In this paper, we describe a new approach to information extraction that neatly integrates top-down hypothesis driven information with bottom-up data driven information. ...
Abstract. In the context of XML data management systems, the estimation of query cardinality is becoming more and more important: the information provided by a query result estimat...