422 research outputs found
CHORUS Deliverable 2.1: State of the Art on Multimedia Search Engines
Based on the information provided by European projects and national initiatives related to multimedia search as well as domains experts that participated in the CHORUS Think-thanks and workshops, this document reports on the state of the art related to multimedia content search from, a technical, and socio-economic perspective.
The technical perspective includes an up to date view on content based indexing and retrieval technologies, multimedia search in the context of mobile devices and peer-to-peer networks, and an overview of current evaluation and benchmark inititiatives to measure the performance of multimedia search engines.
From a socio-economic perspective we inventorize the impact and legal consequences of these technical advances and point out future directions of research
Survey over Existing Query and Transformation Languages
A widely acknowledged obstacle for realizing the vision of the Semantic Web is the inability
of many current Semantic Web approaches to cope with data available in such diverging
representation formalisms as XML, RDF, or Topic Maps. A common query language is the first
step to allow transparent access to data in any of these formats. To further the understanding
of the requirements and approaches proposed for query languages in the conventional as well
as the Semantic Web, this report surveys a large number of query languages for accessing
XML, RDF, or Topic Maps. This is the first systematic survey to consider query languages from
all these areas. From the detailed survey of these query languages, a common classification
scheme is derived that is useful for understanding and differentiating languages within and
among all three areas
Expressiveness improvements of OutSystems DSL query primitives
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Engenharia InformáticaIn the ever more competitive market, companies are forced to reduce their operational costs and innovate. In order to do that, some companies successfully adopted new approaches, some of them using domain specific languages (DSL), building their entire system and all the respective layers in less time and more focused in their business. Frequently, the application business layer interacts with the data layer through SQL queries, in order to obtain or modify data. There are some products in the market that try to make life easier for developers, allowing them to get the data using the features of visual query builders, also available in standard SQL. However, it is not expectable that every possible query can be written through these visual query builders, which leads us to the following
questions "What should and what can easily be supported by visual query builders?". These questions are relevant in order to help improving the experience of developers and save them time.
This work aims to study and analyse techniques that help detecting patterns in structured data and, afterwards, propose a suitable way to view and manage the visualization of the occurrence of such detected patterns. In order to help identify the most frequent patterns and thus contribute to solve the above questions, with this conjunction of topics we expect to provide a way to improve the experience of understanding a large amount of data in a particular context. Once understood some patterns that could be present in the data and their importance, we are ready to propose a new model in the context of
OutSystems Agile PlatformTM, in terms of their visual query builder, aiming to increase its value, improve its expressiveness and offer a powerful visual way to build queries
Proof-of-Concept Application - Annual Report Year 1
In this document the Cat-COVITE Application for use in the CATNETS Project is introduced and motivated. Furthermore an introduction to the catallactic middleware and Web Services Agreement (WS-Agreement) concepts is given as a basis for the future work. Requirements for the application of Cat-COVITE with in catallactic systems are analysed. Finally the integration of the Cat-COVITE application and the catallactic middleware is described. --Grid Computing
Estudio de la topologĂa y protocolos de una red mĂłvil ad-hoc
This project intends to describe how a basic messaging application that, using ad-hoc networks, supports delay tolerance, has been created. Its purpose is to serve as a basis for research groups to be able to work over it for their testing purposes
Data queries over heterogeneous sources
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Engenharia InformáticaEnterprises typically have their data spread over many software systems, such as
custom made applications, CRM systems like SalesForce, CMS systems, or ERP systems
like SAP. In these setting, it is often desired to integrate information from many data
sources to accomplish some business goal in an application. Data may be stored locally
or in the cloud in a wide variety of ways, demanding for explicit transformation processes
to be defined, reason why it is hard for developers to integrate it. Moreover, the amount
of external data can be large and the difference of efficiency between a smart and a naive
way of retrieving and filtering data from different locations can be great. Hence, it is
clear that developers would benefit greatly from language abstractions to help them build
queries over heterogeneous data sources and from an optimization process that avoids
large and unnecessary data transfers during the execution of queries.
This project was developed at OutSystems and aims at extending a real product, which
makes it even more challenging. We followed a generic approach that can be implemented
in any framework, not only focused on the product of OutSystems
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