There are several auxiliary pre-computed access structures that allow faster answers by reading less base data. Examples are materialized views, join indexes, B-tree and bitmap in...
Typical approaches to XML authoring view a XML document as a mixture of structure (the tags) and surface (text between the tags). We advocate a radical approach where the surface ...
The data allocation problem in incomplete information environments consisting of self-motivated servers responding to users' queries is considered. Periodically, the servers ...
This paper presents a technique for local surface extraction from scalar and vector fields using deformable surfaces. The goal of surface extraction is often to find features, o...
The success of spoken dialog applications depends strongly on the quality of the semantic confidence measure that determines the selection of the dialog strategy. However, the sem...