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CCCG
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Medial Axis Approximation of Planar Shapes from Union of Balls: A Simpler and more Robust Algorithm
Given a dense sampling S of the smooth boundary of a planar shape O. We show that the medial axis of the union of Voronoi balls centered at Voronoi vertices inside O has a particu...
Joachim Giesen, Balint Miklos, Mark Pauly
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Semantic information portals
In this paper, we describe the notion of a semantic information portal. This is a community information portal that exploits the semantic web standards to improve structure, exten...
Dave Reynolds, Paul Shabajee, Steve Cayzer
ICALT
2007
IEEE
16 years 23 days ago
Teaching Science subjects to Blind Students
Access to the disciplines of science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for blind and vision impaired people continues to be a problem. The inherently visual nature o...
Donal Fitzpatrick
BTW
2007
Springer
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16 years 19 days ago
Melting Pot XML: Bringing File Systems and Databases One Step Closer
: Ever-growing data volumes demand for storage systems beyond current file systems abilities, particularly, a powerful querying capability. With the rise of XML, the database comm...
Alexander Holupirek, Christian Grün, Marc H. ...
USENIX
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Automatic Optimization of Parallel Dataflow Programs
Large-scale parallel dataflow systems, e.g., Dryad and Map-Reduce, have attracted significant attention recently. High-level dataflow languages such as Pig Latin and Sawzall are b...
Christopher Olston, Benjamin Reed, Adam Silberstei...