Spatial database operations are typically performed in two steps. In the filtering step, indexes and the minimum bounding rectangles (MBRs) of the objects are used to quickly dete...
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly important environments for social interaction, especially for the younger generations. For SVWs to be economically sustainabl...
Malleability enables a parallel application’s execution system to split or merge processes modifying granularity. While process migration is widely used to adapt applications to...
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Travis J. Desell, Boleslaw K...
—Many dynamical processes can be represented as directed attributed graphs or Petri nets where relationships between various entities are explicitly expressed. Signaling networks...
Bahram Parvin, Nirmalya Ghosh, Laura Heiser, Merri...
—Many sensor network protocols in the literature implicitly assume that sensor nodes are deployed uniformly inside a simple geometric region. When the real deployment deviates fr...