Ray tracing and Monte-Carlo based global illumination, as well as radiosity and other finite-element based global illumination methods, all require repeated evaluation of quantita...
Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischin...
Wireless sensor networks are proving to be useful in a variety of settings. A core challenge in these networks is to minimize energy consumption. Prior database research has propo...
David Chu, Amol Deshpande, Joseph M. Hellerstein, ...
With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. Access to multimedia objects in database...
Arjen P. de Vries, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter M. G. A...
Both semantic and type-based query optimization rely on the idea that queries often exhibit non-trivial rewritings if the state space of the database is restricted. Despite their ...
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Typically, users interact with database systems by formulating queries. However, many times users do not have a clear understanding of their information needs or the exact content...