It is clearly crucial for the success of object-oriented databases to find effiĆ cient implementations that improve on the performance of relational sysĆ tems, rather than being...
Abstract. This paper reports our research work in the new field of humancomputer collaborative learning (HCCL). The general architecture of an HCCL is defined. An HCCL system, call...
We describe a physically-based Monte Carlo technique for approximating bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for a large class of geometries by directly simulat...
Stephen H. Westin, James Arvo, Kenneth E. Torrance
In this paper, we explore the execution of pipelined hash joins in a multiprocessor-based database system. To improve the query execution, an innovative approach on query executio...
Ming-Syan Chen, Ming-Ling Lo, Philip S. Yu, Honest...
Any tree can be represented in a max/ma//y compact form as a directed acyclic graph where common subtrees are factored and shared, being represented only once. Such a compaction ca...
Philippe Flajolet, Paolo Sipala, Jean-Marc Steyaer...