Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
The management of big databases of three-dimensional models (used in CAD applications, visualization, games, etc.) is a very important domain. The ability to characterize and easi...
We present a simple and computationally feasible method to perform automatic emotional classification of facial expressions. We propose the use of 10 characteristic points (that ar...
Abstract: In this paper we describe a flexible, portable and languageindependent infrastructure for setting up large monolingual language corpora. The approach is based on collecti...
Christian Biemann, Stefan Bordag, Gerhard Heyer, U...
Materialized views defined over distributed data sources are a well recognized technology for modern applications. Stateof-the-art incremental view maintenance requires O(n2 ) or ...