Recursion represents an important addition to the SQL language. This work focuses on the optimization of linear requeries in SQL. To provide an abstract framework for discussion, ...
Soft constraints are a generalization of classical constraints, where constraints and/or partial assignments are associated to preference or importance levels, and constraints are...
In this work, we investigate how to automatically reassign the manually annotated labels at the image-level to those contextually derived semantic regions. First, we propose a bi-...
Xiaobai Liu, Bin Cheng, Shuicheng Yan, Jinhui Tang...
A new modeling framework is introduced for the analytical study of medium access control (MAC) protocols operating in multihop ad hoc networks. The model takes into account the eï...
Marcelo M. Carvalho, Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Acev...
We construct a class of envelope surfaces in Rd , more precisely envelopes of balls. An envelope surface is a closed C1 (tangent continuous) manifold wrapping tightly around the u...