The World Wide Web has an enormous amount of useful data presented as HTML tables. These tables are often linked to other web pages, providing further detailed information to certain attribute values. Extracting schema of ...

Many study programs include courses on communication technology. All these courses explain the basis of communication technology, but they have different levels of detail depending on the study program and the related ...

Machine understanding of user utterances in conversational systems is of utmost importance for enabling engaging and meaningful conversations with users. Entity Linking (EL) is one of the means of text understanding, with ...

Search engines have become part of our daily lives. We use Google (Bing, Yandex, Baidu, etc.) as the main gateway to find information on theWeb.With a certain type of content in mind, we may search directly on a particular ...

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging technology that allows to reduce the service latency and traffic congestion and to enable cloud offloading and context awareness. MEC consists in deploying computing devices, ...

For general applications, it is way too costly to aim for 100 % secure software; for complex systems it may even be impossible. To achieve effective software security at reasonable cost, it is thus necessary to identify ...

Deadlock control approaches based on Petri nets are usually implemented by adding control places and related arcs to the Petri net model of a system. The main disadvantage of the existing policies is that many control ...

Cities are becoming smarter by incorporating hardware technology, software systems, and network infrastructure that provide Information Technology (IT) systems with real-time awareness of the real world. What makes a “smart ...