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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Approximate XML Query Answers
The rapid adoption of XML as the standard for data representation and exchange foreshadows a massive increase in the amounts of XML data collected, maintained, and queried over th...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Modeling in Software Engineering
A data model is a plan for building a database and is comparable to an architect's building plans. There are two major methodologies used to create a data model: the EntityRe...
Joanne M. Atlee, Robert B. France, Geri Georg, Ana...
SAC
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling cardinal directions in the 3D space with the objects interaction cube matrix
In GIS and spatial databases, cardinal directions are frequently used as selection and join criteria in query languages. However, most cardinal direction models are only able to h...
Tao Chen, Markus Schneider
EDBT
2010
ACM
206views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Efficient computation of trade-off skylines
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Christoph Lofi, Ulrich Güntzer, Wolf-Tilo Bal...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Increasing the expressiveness of virtual agents: autonomous generation of speech and gesture for spatial description tasks
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp