This paper examines the problem of detecting changes in a 3-d scene from a sequence of
images, taken by cameras with arbitrary but known pose. No prior knowledge of the state of …

There is a growing demand for more cost-efficient production processes in Statistical
Institutes. One way to address this need is to equip Statistical Information Systems (SIS) with …

The advantages of collecting structured metadata are presented and various ways of storing
metainformation are discussed. An example of a statistical metadata model is given using …

An object oriented statistical metadata model is presented, which can be used in building
information systems providing metadata-guided, statistical data processing features. The …

The extension of Classical Data Analysis into Symbolic Data Analysis leads to more
complex data types and tables, thus making the handling underlying concepts a more …

An integrated, semantically rich statistical metadata model is designed to cover the major
stages of the statistical information processing (data collection and analysis including …

The huge volume of data produced by different information sources has led to the
development of tools to retrieve relevant data. Using metadata, defined as" data about data" …

Symbolic data not only serve to summarize large data sets, but also lead to more complex
data tables, thus enabling the manipulation of huge data sets (Billard and Diday, 2003). In …