This paper describes issues encountered in the design and implementation of a parallel object-oriented database system. In particular, we find that the design of a client/server ...
The kinematics and force/displacement relationships of elements of biological joints are notoriously difficult to understand. In particular, the human knee has bearing surfaces o...
Creating high-quality multimediapresentationsrequiresmuch skill, time, and effort. This is particularly true when temporal media, such as speech and animation, are involved. We de...
Mukesh Dalal, Steven Feiner, Kathleen McKeown, Shi...
Exotic semirings such as the “(max, +) semiring” (R ∪ {−∞}, max, +), or the “tropical semiring” (N ∪ {+∞}, min, +), have been invented and reinvented many times s...
Abstract: Recently there has been an increasing interest in supporting bulk operations on multidimensional index structures. Bulk loading refers to the process of creating an initi...
Jochen Van den Bercken, Bernhard Seeger, Peter Wid...