XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for representing data in the World Wide Web. Sophisticated query engines that allow users to effectively tap the data stored in XML d...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kristin Tufte, Chun Zhan...
Previous research on materialized views has primarily been in the context of flat relational databases--materialized views defined in terms of one or more flat relations. This pape...
Akira Kawaguchi, Daniel F. Lieuwen, Inderpal Singh...
Abstract Current, data-driven applications have become more dynamic in nature, with the need to respond to events generated from distributed sources or to react to information extr...
ScriptEase is a tool that allows authors with no programming experience to create interactive stories for computer role-playing games. Instead of writing scripting code manually, ...
Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer,...
The ubiquitous computing vision is to make knowledge and services easily available in our everyday environments. A wide range of devices, applications and services can be intercon...