Abstract. WWW Video Search Engines have become increasingly commonplace within the last few years and at the same time video retrieval research has been receiving more attention wi...
: This paper introduces the concept of Ontology based Geo-Object Catalog (OGOC). An OGOC acts as a focal point for a federation of independent geoobject sources, providing consolid...
Daniela F. Brauner, Marco A. Casanova, Carlos Jos&...
One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
This paper focuses on load management in looselycoupled federated distributed systems. We present a distributed mechanism for moving load between autonomous participants using bil...
Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Michael S...
While advances have been made in structuring, indexing and retrieval of multimedia documents, we propose to study the unexplored problematics of information retrieval on heterogen...