Currently, only few XML data management systems support concurrent access to an XML document, and if they do, they typically apply variations of hierarchical locking to handle XML...
— One of the principal guidelines in the design of haptic devices is to provide a suitable mechanical design that can improve control performance and the force-feedback fidelity...
Simone Marcheschi, Antonio Frisoli, Carlo Alberto ...
In this paper we address the problem of unsupervised Web data extraction. We show that unsupervised Web data extraction becomes feasible when supposing pages that are made up of r...
A commonly experienced problem with population based optimisation methods is the gradual decline in population diversity that tends to occur over time. This can slow a system’s ...
In high energy physics, bioinformatics, and other disciplines, we encounter applications involving numerous, loosely coupled jobs that both access and generate large data sets. So...