In this paper we describe the design and production of Catalan database for building synthetic voices. Two speakers, with 10 hours per speaker, have recorded 10 hours of speech. T...
Antonio Bonafonte, Jordi Adell, Ignasi Esquerra, S...
A large number of online databases are hidden behind the web. Users to these systems can form queries through web forms to retrieve a small sample of the database. Sampling such h...
Anirban Maiti, Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, Gautam D...
This paper suggests that participatory system design methodologies may be used as a learning tool in academic environments. It reports from a successful experiment in this directi...
The performance of a database system depends strongly on the layout of database objects, such as indexes or tables, onto the underlying storage devices. A good layout will both ba...
In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a CORBA Query Service targeted to access data that is defined by the EXPRESS data modeling language. EXPRESS is used pri...