We present a general framework for cross-media annotation that can be used to support the many different forms and uses of annotation. Specifically, we discuss the need for digital annotation of printed materials and describe how various technologies ...

We study in this paper the integration of elastic and streaming traffic on a same link in an IP network. We are specifically interested in the computation of the mean bit rate obtained by a data transfer. For this purpose, we consider that the bit rate ...

This paper presents some invariance properties of differential equations, used for generating truncated test-function (functions which differ from zero only on a certain interval and with only some derivatives f⁽¹⁾, f⁽²⁾, ..f⁽ⁿ⁾ ...

This paper reports our first set of results on managing uncertainty in data integration. We posit that data-integration systems need to handle uncertainty at three levels and do so in a principled fashion. First, the semantic mappings between the data ...

Multirate integration is a technique in which a set of differential equations is solved with different timesteps assigned to subsets of equations [4][10]. In circuit simulation this is commonly used in the waveform relaxation method, where different ...

The rapidly growing web-based online services offered by new and traditional vendors have attracted the interests of massive consumers. These vendors provide or extend their services and products to the clients via the internet. As the service offers ...

The World Wide Web is increasingly being used to allow both educators and learners to more easily locate desired information, as well as to support integration of related materials from different sources. This paper reports on an ontology constructed ...

Several interesting topologies emerge by incorporating the third dimension in networks-on-chip (NoC). The speed and power consumption of 3-D NoC are compared to that of 2-D NoC. Physical constraints, such as the maximum number of planes that can be vertically ...

Service-oriented architecture based on web services technology provides a promising platform where the enterprises are allowed to coordinate seamlessly application services on the heterogeneous information systems. In this paper, a methodology of generating ...

Abstract: In general, multiple views are required to create a complete 3-D model of an object or of a multi-roomed indoor scene. In this work, we address the problem of merging multiple textured 3-D data sets, each of which corresponds to a different ...

This paper describes a framework for the coordination and integration of information systems. By modeling typical enterprise information systems as consisting of multiple agents with different functionalities, the methodology provides the representational ...

We give a language-independent characterization of the expressive power of the relational algebra on finite sets of source-target relation instance pairs. The associated decision problem is shown to be cograph-isomorphism hard and in coNP. The main result ...

When data sources are virtually integrated, there is no materialized global instance available. In this paper, we consider the problem of computing answers when queries are posed to virtual XML data integration systems, which are specified following ...

This article describes a flexible approach for integration testing based on business processes. The approach was successfully implemented in medium, large and very large projects in large organisations of different industries. In this approach the tester ...

The rapid development of space and computer technologies allows for the possibility to store huge amounts of remotely sensed image data, collected using airborne and satellite instruments. In particular, NASA is continuously gathering high-dimensional ...

Automatic data exchange among computer applications in industrial domains is an issue that has been largely worked out by the scientific and industrial community during last years. In the scope of the several industrial activities, the lack of tools ...

Numerical integration of stochastic differential equations together with the Monte Carlo technique is used to evaluate conditional Wiener integrals of exponential-type functionals. An explicit Runge-Kutta method of order four and implicit Runge-Kutta ...