Abstract. In this paper, motivated by applications of ordinary (distance) spanners in communication networks and to address such issues as bandwidth constraints on network links, l...
The problem of interactive foreground/background segmentation in still images is of great practical importance in image editing. The state of the art in interactive segmentation is...
Andrew Blake, Carsten Rother, M. Brown, Patrick P&...
It is widely realized that the integration of database and information retrieval techniques will provide users with a wide range of high quality services. In this paper, we study ...
Bolin Ding, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Shan Wang, Lu Qin, Xiao...
— Complex ad hoc join queries over enterprise databases are commonly used by business data analysts to understand and analyze a variety of enterprise-wide processes. However, eff...
Xiaoyan Yang, Cecilia M. Procopiuc, Divesh Srivast...
Many areas of modern biology are concerned with the management, storage, visualization, comparison, and analysis of networks. For instance, networks are used to model signal trans...