This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
ABSTRACT. Objectives. This paper addresses Grid-based integration and access of distributed data from infectious disease patient databases, literature on in-vitro and in-vivo pharm...
Peter M. A. Sloot, Alexander Boukhanovsky, Wilco K...
We present a stereo algorithm that achieves high quality results while maintaining real-time performance. The key idea is simple: we introduce an adaptive aggregation step in a dy...
On machines with high-performance processors, the memory system continues to be a performance bottleneck. Compilers insert prefetch operations and reorder data accesses to improve...
Nathaniel McIntosh, Sandya Mannarswamy, Robert Hun...
In this paper we propose a new metaphor of information retrieving, usable in heritage management and publishing. Based on the net, the user is able to participate in virtual guide...
Dorin Mircea Popovici, Serge Morvan, Eric Maisel, ...