Athena is the ATLAS off-line software framework, based upon the GAUDI architecture from LHCb. As part of ATLAS' continuing efforts to enhance and customise the architecture to meet our needs, we have developed a data object description tool suite and service for Athena. The aim is to provide a set of tools to describe, manage, integrate and use the Event Data Model at a design level according t...

Resumen Since many of the attempts to introduce a universal hydrographic data format have failed or have been only partially successful, a different approach is proposed. Our solution is the Hydrographic Universal Data Description Language (HUDDL), a descriptive XML-based language that permits the creation of a standardized description of (past, present, and future) data formats, and allows for...

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The article aims at establishing a logical approach to class-based data modeling. After a discussion on class-based formalisms for data modeling, we introduce a family of logics, called Description Logics, which stem from research on Knowledge Representation in Arti cial Intelligence. The logics of this family are particularly well suited for specifying data classes and relationships among clas...

Data domain description techniques aim at deriving concise descriptions of objects belonging to a category of interest. For instance, the support vector domain description (SVDD) learns a hypersphere enclosing the bulk of provided unlabeled data such that points lying outside of the ball are considered anomalous. However, relevant information such as expert and background knowledge remain unuse...

To build a data-integration system, the application designer must specify a mediated schema and supply the descriptions of data sources. A source description contains a source schema that describes the content of the source, and a mapping between the corresponding elements of the source schema and the mediated schema. Manually constructing these mappings is both labor-intensive and error-prone,...

This investigation of machine processing of picto­ rial data is based on the premise that people can recognize visual objects and describe them well enough so that other individuals can recognize the object from the description. Given a system of linguistic communi­ cation between a person and a digital computer, and given that the computer possesses adequate perceptual machinery, many currentl...