While graphical user interfaces have gained much popularity in recent years, there are situations when the need to use existing applications in a nonvisual modality is clear. Exam...
In this paper we give a practical and e cient output-sensitive algorithm for constructing the display of a polyhedral terrain. It runs in Od + nlog2 n time and uses On n space, wh...
Probabilistic I/O automata (PIOA) constitute a model for distributed or concurrent systems that incorporates a notion of probabilistic choice. The PIOA model provides a notion of ...
Our work links Chinese calligraphy to computer science through an integrated intelligence approach. We first extract strokes of existent calligraphy using a semi-automatic, twoph...
Songhua Xu, Hao Jiang, Francis Chi-Moon Lau, Yunhe...
We present a “black-box” approach to estimating query cardinality that has no knowledge of query execution plans and data distribution, yet provides accurate estimates. It doe...