In this paper we describe Lokutor, a virtual human. Lokutor is a partially autonomous agent, inhabiting a 3D virtual environment. The agent can be controlled via natural language ...
With the widespread adoption of XML as the message format to disseminate content over distributed systems including Web Services and Publish-Subscribe systems, different methods ha...
Many XML filtering systems have emerged in recent years identifying XML data that structurally match XPath queries in an efficient way. However, apart from structural matching, it...
The increasing volume of data stored as XML documents makes fragmentation techniques an alternative to the performance issues in query processing. Fragmented databases are feasible...
Guilherme Figueiredo, Vanessa P. Braganholo, Marta...
The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...