Technologies for conceptual modelling and intelligent query formulation
Ronéll Alberts, Katarina Britz, A. R. Gerber, Ken Halland, Tim De Meyer, Laurette Pretorius · 2008
CPO-0020 BACKGROUND Improvements in hardware technology in the last decade have opened the way to a new generation of information systems involving complex objects that may integrate components of various kinds: (hyper)text, images, graphics, video, and audio The web and digital libraries are becoming the main source of this kind of information for a potentially enormous community of users Research and development in this area is of strategic importance, as witnessed by the amount of effort that is converging on the fi eld.