An important database primitive for commonly used feature databases is the similarity join. It combines two datasets based on some similarity predicate into one set such that the n...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
This paper presents a rate control algorithm for the dominant discrete cosine transform (DCT) -based video coding. It is developed based on a more accurate rate-distortion (RD) mo...
Many recent studies perform annotation of paintings based on brushwork. In these studies the brushwork is modeled indirectly as part of the annotation of high-level artistic conce...
Component Based Development (CBD) aims to facilitate the construction of large-scale applications by supporting the composition of simple building blocks into complex applications...
This paper synthesizes two trends in the engineering of agent-based systems. One, modern agent-oriented methodologies deal with the key aspects of software development including re...