Microfluidics-based biochips, also referred to as lab-on-a-chip (LoC), are devices that integrate fluid-handling functions such as sample preparation, analysis, separation, and de...
We describe an algorithm for rendering animated smoke particle systems in a cartoon style. This style includes outlines and celshading. For efficient self-shadowing effects, we in...
Templates in web sites hurt search engine retrieval performance, especially in content relevance and link analysis. Current template removal methods suffer from processing speed ...
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Partial replication is one type of optimization to speed up execution of queries submitted to large datasets. In partial replication, a portion of the dataset is extracted, re-org...