Creating freeform surfaces is a challenging task even with advanced geometric modeling systems. Laser range scanners offer a promising alternative for model acquisition--the 3D sc...
Magic sets rewriting is a well-known optimization heuristic for complex decision-support queries. There can be many variants of this rewriting even for a single query, which diffe...
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When a performance crisis occurs in a datacenter, rapid recovery requires quickly recognizing whether a similar incident occurred before, in which case a known remedy may apply, o...
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The divide-and-conquer principle is a majoi paradigm of algorithms design. Corresponding cost functions satisfy recurrences that directly reflect the decomposition mechanism used i...
The concept of information landscapes has been a constant theme in the development of interactive multimedia packages. For the interface and access to this information to be effec...
John G. Hedberg, Barry Harper, Christine Brown, Ro...