Ordering and ranking items of different types are important tasks in various applications, such as query processing and scientific data mining. A total order for the items can be ...
The design of efficient textual similarities is an important issue in the domain of textual data exploration. Textual similarities are for example central in document collection s...
Ambient occlusion has proven to be a useful tool for producing realistic images, both in offline rendering and interactive applications. In production rendering, ambient occlusion...
In order to navigate huge document collections efficiently, tagged hierarchical structures can be used. For users, it is important to correctly interpret tag combinations. In this ...
Several new Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines have been recently released, many of which are intended to be used in performance sensitive scenarios - like fraud detection, tr...
Marcelo R. N. Mendes, Pedro Bizarro, Paulo Marques