This paper describes articial neural networks which are based on the adaptiveresonance theory. The usage of these articial neural networks for classicationtasks is presented. The example uses is the classication of patient health fromthe results of general blood analysis.[...]

We present the user-centered, iterative design of Mobile Facets, a mo-bile application for the faceted search and exploration of a large, multi-dimensional data set of social media on a touchscreen mobile phone. Mo-bile Facets provides retrieval of resources such as places, persons,...

With the Multimedia Metadata Ontology (M3O), we havedeveloped a sophisticated model for representing among others the annotation,decomposition, and provenance of multimedia metadata. Thegoal of the M3O is to integrate the existing metadata standards andmetadata formats rather than replacing...

The novel mobile application csxPOI (short for: collabora-tive, semantic, and context-aware points-of-interest) enables its usersto collaboratively create, share, and modify semantic points of interest(POI). Semantic POIs describe geographic places with explicit semanticproperties of a...

The semantics of rich multimedia presentations in the websuch as SMIL, SVG and Flash cannot or only to a verylimited extend be understood by search engines today. Thishampers the retrieval of such presentations and makes theirarchival and management a difficult task. Existing metadatamodels and...