Peer-to-peer systems offer attractive system management properties, including the ability of components that join the network to self-organize; scalability up to tens of thousands...
Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...
We introduce a parallel approximation of an Over-determined Laplacian Partial Differential Equation solver (ODETLAP) applied to the compression and restoration of terrain data use...
Jared Stookey, Zhongyi Xie, Barbara Cutler, W. Ran...
This paper is concerned with efficient querying of very large multi-resolution datasets on storage and compute clusters. We present a suite of services that support storage, index...
Preliminary work by the authors made use of the so-called "Manhattan world" assumption about the scene statistics of city and indoor scenes. This assumption stated that ...