In current research toward the design of more powerful behavior of RTDBS under unpredictable workloads, different research groups focus their work on QoS (Quality of Service) guar...
We present a system for efficient meta-data indexed querying of XML documents. Given the diversity of the information available in XML, it is very useful to annotate XML data wit...
SQL extensions that allow queries to explicitly specify data quality requirements in terms of currency and consistency were proposed in an earlier paper. This paper develops a dat...
Processing data streams with Quality-ofService (QoS) guarantees is an emerging area in existing streaming applications. Although it is possible to negotiate the result quality and...
We present our current state of development regarding animated agents applicable to affective dialogue systems. A new set of tools are under development to support the creation of...