The requirements for a system are often specified as textual use cases. Although they are written in natural language, the simple and uniform sentence structure used makes automate...
The R*-tree is a state-of-the-art spatial index structure. It has already found its way into commercial systems. The most important improvement of the R*-tree over the original R-...
The ability to aggregate huge volumes of queries over a large population of users allows search engines to build precise models for a variety of query-assistance features such as ...
Despite impressive advances in file system throughput resulting from technologies such as high-bandwidth networks and disk arrays, file system latency has not improved and in many...
— A team of small, low-cost robots instead of a single large, complex robot is useful in operations such as search and rescue, urban exploration etc. However, the performance of ...