With the substantial change of declarative query languages from plain SQL to the so-called \object SQLs", in particular OQL, there has surprisingly been not much change in the...
Declustering and replication are well known techniques used to improve response time of queries in parallel disk environments. As data replication incurs a penalty for updates, da...
When evaluating quantitative aspects of communication networks using simulation, one of the main difficulties to face is the often considerable computing power required. In some s...
Computer animation has come a long way during the last decade and is now capable of producing near-realistic rendered 3D computer graphics models of expressive, talking, acting hu...
In our participation to the 2010 LogCLEF track we focused on the analysis of the European Library (TEL) logs and in particular we experimented with the identification of the natura...