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CP
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Search Strategies for Rectangle Packing
Rectangle (square) packing problems involve packing all squares with sizes 1 × 1 to n × n into the minimum area enclosing rectangle (respectively, square). Rectangle packing is a...
Helmut Simonis, Barry O'Sullivan
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
221views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Analyzing the energy efficiency of a database server
Rising energy costs in large data centers are driving an agenda for energy-efficient computing. In this paper, we focus on the role of database software in affecting, and, ultimat...
Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul...
CORR
2007
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
How really effective are Multimodal Hints in enhancing Visual Target Spotting? Some evidence from a usability study
The main aim of the work presented here is to contribute to computer science advances in the multimodal usability area, in-as-much as it addresses one of the major issues relating...
Suzanne Kieffer, Noelle Carbonell
CLUSTER
2000
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Data management for large-scale scientific computations in high performance distributed systems
With the increasing number of scientific applications manipulating huge amounts of data, effective high-level data management is an increasingly important problem. Unfortunately, ...
Alok N. Choudhary, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Jaechun No,...
ALGORITHMICA
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
On Minimum-Area Hulls
Abstract. We study some minimum-area hull problems that generalize the notion of convex hull to starshaped and monotone hulls. Specifically, we consider the minimum-area star-shap...
Esther M. Arkin, Yi-Jen Chiang, Martin Held, Josep...