Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Due to the rapid advancement of electronic commerce and web technologies in recent years, the concepts and applications of decision support systems have been significantly extende...
An audio fingerprint is a compact representation of the perceptually relevant parts of audio content. A suitable audio fingerprint can be used to identify audio files, even if ...
Despite the ubiquity of computers and on-line documents, paper persists. As physical objects, paper documents are easy to use, flexible, portable and are difficult to replace. Eve...
Many virtual environments and games must be populated with synthetic characters to create the desired experience. These characters must move with sufficient realism, so as not to...
Michael Gleicher, Hyun Joon Shin, Lucas Kovar, And...