The decomposition of a document into segments such as text regions and graphics is a significant part of the document analysis process. The basic requirement for rating and impro...
Construction of complex array operations by composition of more basic ones allows for abstract and concise specifications of algorithms. Unfortunately, na¨ıve compilation of suc...
We present a method for efficiently performing deletions and updates of records when the records to be deleted or updated are chosen by a range scan on an index. The traditional m...
Progressive Optimization (POP) is a technique to make query plans robust, and minimize need for DBA intervention, by repeatedly re-optimizing a query during runtime if the cardina...
Vijayshankar Raman, Volker Markl, David E. Simmen,...
Different approaches have been proposed over the years for automatically transforming High-Level-Languages (HLL) descriptions of applications into custom hardware implementations. ...