Although multicomputers are becoming feasible for solving large problems, they are difficult to program: Extraction of parallelism from scalar languages is possible, but limited....
We describe the design and implementation of the Glue-Nail database system. The Nail language is a purely declarative query language; Glue is a procedural language used for nonque...
Marcia A. Derr, Shinichi Morishita, Geoffrey Phipp...
Global clustering has rarely been investigated in the area of spatial database systems although dramatic performance improvements can be achieved by using suitable techniques. In ...
Normalized Cuts has successfully been applied to a wide range of tasks in computer vision, it is indisputably one of the most popular segmentation algorithms in use today. A number...
Bids during an online auction arrive at unequally-spaced discrete time points. Our goal is to capture the entire continuous price-evolution function by representing it as a functi...