Collaborative work requires, more than ever, access to data located on multiple autonomous and heterogeneous data sources. The development of these novel information platforms, ref...
As the number of in-house and public-domain 3D shape models increase, importance of shape-similarity based search and retrieval for 3D shapes models has increased rapidly. In this...
The wide range of different devices with varying capabilities and interaction modalities as well as changing user context in nomadic applications, poses critical challenges to the ...
Of the many tuning parameters available in a database management system (DBMS), one of the most crucial to performance is the buffer pool size. Choosing an appropriate size, howev...
Much information and knowledge work (with and without information technology) can be characterised as multitasking and interrupt driven. A whole host of characterisations and buzz...