Abstract. A useful ability for search engines is to be able to rank objects with novelty and diversity: the top k documents retrieved should cover possible interpretations of a que...
Relational OLAP tools and other database applications generate sequences of SQL statements that are sent to the database server as result of a single information request issued by...
In modern IP networks, processing cost in network nodes is considered as a bottleneck. This problem is tackled with traffic based IP switching. The performance of traffic based IP...
: Large polygon meshes are a common entity in scienti c and engineering science. Polygon meshes can be used for simpli ed geometric operations such as collision detection and surfa...
In order to obtain efficiency, current practice in distributed software systems design often suffers from a lack of ion. An object-oriented design technique based on UML notations...