With more and more natural language text stored in databases, handling respective query predicates becomes very important. Optimizing queries with predicates includes (sub)string ...
A "plan diagram" is a pictorial enumeration of the execution plan choices of a database query optimizer over the relational selectivity space. We have shown recently tha...
Packet classification is crucial for the Internet to provide more value-added services and guaranteed quality of service. Besides hardware-based solutions, many software-based cla...
We present a systematic procedure for selecting facial fiducial points associated with diverse structural characteristics of a human face. We identify such characteristics from th...
Shalini Gupta, J. K. Aggarwal, Mia K. Markey, Alan...
A system to retrieve images using a description of the image intensity surface is presented. Gaussian derivative lters at several scales are applied to the image and low order 2D ...