The need to improve a suboptimal execution plan picked by the query optimizer for a repeatedly run SQL query arises routinely. Complex expressions, skewed or correlated data, and ...
As online social networks (OSN) attempt to mimic real life social networks, we have made progress towards using OSNs to provide us with data to allow for richer and more robust onl...
—The need for integration of all types of client and server applications that were not initially designed to interoperate is gaining popularity. One of the reasons for this popul...
Anne H. H. Ngu, Michael Pierre Carlson, Quan Z. Sh...
Peer-to-Peer streaming systems (or P2P-TV) have been studied in the literature for some time, and they are becoming popular among users as well. P2P-TV systems target the real time...
Alessandra Carta, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Stefa...
In this paper, we introduce a system that synthesizes the emotional audio-visual speech for a 3-D talking agent by adopting the PAD (Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance) emotional model. A ...