Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...
The three problems of the title — the first two widely discussed in the literature, the third less well known but just as important for further development of object technology ...
Power leakage constitutes an increasing fraction of the total power consumption in modern semiconductor technologies. Recent research efforts have tried to integrate architecture...
Abstract. The work described in this abstract presents a roadmap towards the creation and specification of a virtual humanoid capable of performing expressive gestures in real tim...
We provide precise high-level models for eight fundamental service interaction patterns, together with schemes for their composition into complex service-based business process int...