XQuery is known to be a powerful XML query language with many bells and whistles. For many common queries we do not need all the expressive power of XQuery. We investigate the eff...
Jan Hidders, Stefania Marrara, Jan Paredaens, Roel...
Abstract. Web services have become the predominant paradigm for the development of distributed software systems. Web services provide the means to modularize software in a way that...
Embodied Conversational Agents have typically been constructed for use in limited domain applications, and tested in very specialized environments. Only in recent years have there...
Susan Robinson, David R. Traum, Midhun Ittycheriah...
A personal digital music library needs to be “agile”, that is, it needs to make it easy to capture and index material on the fly. A digital camera is a particularly effective...
Empirical performance evaluation of parallel systems and applications can generate significant amounts of performance data and analysis results from multiple experiments as perfo...
Kevin A. Huck, Allen D. Malony, Robert Bell, Alan ...