A major need of precision-oriented retrieval systems is the availability of high-level indexing languages which can allow the representation and the manipulation of elaborated concepts for both indexing and querying processes. Such elaborated knowledge representations, as the one developed in the RIME project, need in turn to be fully integrated within the underlying retrieval model to ensure p...

Formation, adhesion, and accumulation of ice, snow, frost, glaze, rime, or their mixtures can cause severe problems for solar panels, wind turbines, aircrafts, heat pumps, power lines, telecommunication equipment, and submarines. These problems can decrease efficiency in power generation, increase energy consumption, result in mechanical and/or electrical failure, and generate safety hazards. T...

La relation professionnelle et amicale entre l’historien de l’art Werner Haftmann (1912-1999) l’artiste abstrait Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902-1969) dans la République fédérale d’Allemagne pendant l’apres-guerre répresente un cas emblématique d’élaboration d’une historiographie l’art. À travers l’analyse correspondance, l’encyclopédie moderne Malerei im 20. Jahrhundert, publiée par en 1954, des catal...