Query containment is a fundamental problem of databases. Given two queries q1 and q2, it asks whether the set of answers to q1 is included in the set of answers to q2 for any datab...
Abstract—We present an extended version of a software system SIGHTS1 (Statistical Identification of Groups Hidden in Time and Space), which can be used for the discovery, analys...
Jeffrey Baumes, Mark K. Goldberg, Mykola Hayvanovy...
Embodied conversational agents should be able to provide feedback on what a human interlocutor is saying. We are compiling a list of facial feedback expressions that signal attenti...
Dirk Heylen, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Marion Tellier, ...
In this work, we present accordion arrays, a straightforward and effective memory compression technique targeting Unicode-based character arrays. In many non-numeric Java programs...
Heterogeneous clusters and grid infrastructures are becoming increasingly popular. In these computing infrastructures, machines have different resources, including memory sizes, d...