Virtual environment research has focused on interactive image generation and has largely ignored acoustic modeling for spatialization of sound. Yet, realistic auditory cues can co...
Thomas A. Funkhouser, Ingrid Carlbom, Gary Elko, G...
Databases are increasingly being used to store multi-media objects such as maps, images, audio and video. Storage and retrieval of these objects is accomplished using multi-dimens...
Kothuri Venkata Ravi Kanth, Divyakant Agrawal, Amb...
The Relational On-Line Analytical Processing (ROLAP) is emerging as thedominant approach in data warehousing with decision support applications. In order to enhance query performa...
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Branch-and-bound algorithms are general methods applicable to various combinatorial optimization problems and parallelization is one of the most hopeful methods to improve these a...