One of the most challenging aspects of managing a very large data warehouse is identifying how queries will behave before they start executing. Yet knowing their performance charac...
Archana Ganapathi, Harumi A. Kuno, Umeshwar Dayal,...
The authors have developed a new approach to database interoperability using the sketch data model. That technique has now been used in a number of applications, but an important ...
In the context of natural multimodal dialogue systems, we address the challenging issue of the definition of cooperative answers in an appropriate multimodal form. Highlighting th...
Meriam Horchani, Benjamin Caron, Laurence Nigay, F...
Online detection of video clips that present previously unseen events in a video stream is still an open challenge to date. For this online new event detection (ONED) task, existi...
Non-technical users are increasingly adding structures to their data. This gives rise to the need for database design. However, traditional database design is deliberate and heavy...