Abstract. Retrieving semistructured (XML) data typically requires either a structured query such as XPath, or a keyword query that does not take structure into account. In this pap...
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
Abstract Sensor devices produce data that are unreliable, low-level, and seldom able to be used directly by applications. In this paper, we propose Metaphysical Data Independence (...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Ga...
As component-oriented approaches become increasingly pervasive in the development of complex software systems, it becomes increasingly important to introduce computing science stu...
We present a new approach to surface reconstruction based on the Delaunay complex. First we give a simple and fast algorithm that picks locally a surface at each vertex. For that,...