Managing problem tickets is a key issue in the IT services industry. A large service provider may handle thousands of problem tickets from its customer on daily basis. The efficie...
Qihong Shao, Yi Chen, Shu Tao, Xifeng Yan, Nikos A...
Heterogeneous systems are systems that obey different functioning laws. For instance, during the design of embedded systems, it is generally necessary to study both the controller...
Due to the enormous increase in the stored digital contents, search and retrieval functionalities are necessary in multimedia systems. Though processor speed for standard PCs (Per...
Background: Many three-dimensional (3D) images are routinely collected in biomedical research and a number of digital atlases with associated anatomical and other information have...
Guangjie Feng, Nick Burton, Bill Hill, Duncan Davi...
We consider a set of views stating possibly conflicting facts. Negative facts in the views may come, e.g., from functional dependencies in the underlying database schema. We want ...