: Simplifying data programming is a core mission of data management research. The issue at stake is to help engineers build efficient and robust data-centric applications. The fron...
The multidimensional, heterogeneous, and temporal nature of speech databases raises interesting challenges for representation and query. Recently, annotation graphs have been prop...
The XML format has become the standard for data exchange because it is self-describing and it stores not only information but also the relationships between data. Therefore it is u...
The perceived quality of a synthetic visual speech signal greatly depends on the smoothness of the presented visual articulators. This paper explains how concatenative visual spee...
We study the problem of auditing a batch of SQL queries: Given a forbidden view of a database that should have been kept confidential, a batch of queries that were posed over this ...