In a state-of-the-art XML database, an XML query is evaluated as a sequence of structural joins in which positions of data nodes are used to perform each individual structural joi...
In this paper we present two novel techniques to improve the quality of triangle surface meshes while preserving surface characteristics as much as possible. In contrast to previo...
Irina B. Semenova, Vladimir V. Savchenko, Ichiro H...
In a decision-making process, a systematic method to manage and measure negotiation aspects provides crucial information to negotiators and has emerged as a key factor to determin...
On many computers, a request to run a job is not serviced immediately but instead is placed in a queue and serviced only when resources are released by preceding jobs. In this pape...
The performance of timing-driven placement methods depends strongly on the choice of the net model. In this paper a more precise net model is presented that does not increase nume...