This paper describes "Second Life" as a novel type of testbed and simulation environment for sensor-based applications. Second Life is a popular virtual online world tha...
Boris Brandherm, Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendin...
Financial efficiency is the premier performance measure for most systems. Existing economic ecosystems for distribution of multimedia leave a lot to be desired: client-server plat...
Abstract. This paper proposes an expert peering system for information exchange. Our objective is to develop a real-time search engine for an online community where users can ask e...
Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are heavily dependent upon the optimizer’s e...
Michael Stillger, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl, Mok...
Given models for healthy brains, tumor segmentation can be seen as a process of detecting abnormalities or outliers that are present with certain image intensity and geometric prop...
Marcel Prastawa, Elizabeth Bullitt, Sean Ho, Guido...