This paper presents a concurrent object model based on distributed recursive sets for data intensive applications that use complex, recursive data layouts. The set abstraction is ...
During software evolution, adaptive, and corrective maintenance are common reasons for changes. Often such changes cluster around key components. It is therefore important to anal...
James M. Bieman, Anneliese Amschler Andrews, Helen...
A multi-step method of partitioning the pixels of an image such that the partitions at one step are wholly nested inside the partitions of the next step is described, i.e. we desc...
The proliferation of content-based image retrieval techniques has highlighted the need to understand the relationship between image clustering based on low-Ievel imagefeatures and...
The elapsed time for external mergesort is normally dominated by I/O time. This paper is focused on reducing I/O time during the merge phase. Three new buffering and readahead str...