Within the EU-funded COMPANIONS project, we are working to evaluate new collaborative conversational models of dialogue. Such an evaluation requires us to benchmark approaches to ...
Nick Webb, David Benyon, Jay Bradley, Preben Hanse...
XML indices are essential for efficiently processing XML queries which typically have predicates on both structures and values. Since the number of all possible structural and val...
Kanda Runapongsa, Jignesh M. Patel, Rajesh Bordawe...
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....
— Due to the ongoing massive growth of the global Internet, the rising integration of Voice over IP (VoIP) services and the Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), the IPv6 protocol and ...
Thomas Hoeher, Martin Petraschek, Slobodanka Tomic...
Abstract. Query optimization is an important functionality of modern database systems and often based on estimating the selectivity of queries before actually executing them. Well-...