Abstract. During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfa...
Abstract. Current software systems increasingly consist of distributed interacting components. The use of web services and similar middleware technologies strongly fosters such arc...
Martin Deubler, Michael Meisinger, Sabine Rittmann...
Abstract. This paper proposes an extension of the UML 2.0 profiling mechanism. This extension facilitates a language designer to introduce composite concepts as separate conceptual...
Dick A. C. Quartel, Remco M. Dijkman, Marten van S...
The largest databases in use today are so large that answering a query exactly can take minutes, hours, or even days. One way to address this problem is to make use of approximati...
Chris Jermaine, Alin Dobra, Abhijit Pol, Shantanu ...
Spatial databases support a variety of geometric queries on point data such as range searches, nearest neighbor searches, etc. Balanced Aspect Ratio (BAR) trees are hierarchical sp...