Topological relationships like overlap, inside, meet, and disjoint uniquely characterize the relative position between objects in space. For a long time, they have been a focus of...
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) involve the manipulation of large spatial data sets, and the performance of these systems is often determined by how these data sets are orga...
Akhil Kumar, Waleed A. Muhanna, Raymond A. Patters...
Diagnosing production run failures is a challenging yet important task. Most previous work focuses on offsite diagnosis, i.e. development site diagnosis with the programmers prese...
Joseph Tucek, Shan Lu, Chengdu Huang, Spiros Xanth...
We present a new run-time system for typed programming languages that supports object sharing in a distributed system. The key insight in this system is that the ability to distin...
Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wall...
There is an increasing need to integrate spatial index structures into commercial database management systems. In geographic information systems (GIS), huge amounts of information ...