Urban studies: A paved paradise

Paradise SQL Queries Result Paradise Tuples Paradise Client Process Paradise

This paper describes the design and implementation of Paradise, a database system designed for handling GIS type of applications. The current version of Paradise, uses a client{server architecture and provides an extended{relational data model for modeling GIS applications. Paradise supports an extended version of SQL and provides a graphical user interface for querying and browsing the databas...

Filter properties of seam material from paved urban soils

Depositions of all kinds of urban dirt and dust including anthropogenic organic substances like soot change the filter properties of the seam filling material of pervious pavements and lead to the formation of a new soil substrate called seam material. In this study, the impact of the particular urban form of organic matter (OM) on the seam materials CECpot, the specific surface area (As), the ...

Evaluating spoken dialogue agents with PARADISE: Two case studies

This paper presents PARADISE PARAdigm for DIalogue Sys tem Evaluation a general framework for evaluating and comparing the performance of spoken dialogue agents The framework decou ples task requirements from an agent s dialogue behaviors supports comparisons among dialogue strategies enables the calculation of per formance over subdialogues and whole dialogues speci es the relative contributio...

A Glimpse of Paradise

Having understood that most attractive programming paradigms introduced recently in declarative symbolic programming languagesneed not be provided at the detriment of one another, we also believe that they can and should coexist with the more conventional state-effecting style of explicit control and data processing of imperative programming. To this end, we language designers must provide thre...

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