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SIGMOD
1996
ACM
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Cost-Based Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation
Magic sets rewriting is a well-known optimization heuristic for complex decision-support queries. There can be many variants of this rewriting even for a single query, which diffe...
Praveen Seshadri, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Hamid Pir...
EDCC
1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Designing Secure and Reliable Applications using Fragmentation-Redundancy-Scattering: An Object-Oriented Approach
Security and reliability issues in distributed systems have been investigated for several years at LAAS using a technique called Fragmentation-Redundancy-Scattering (FRS). The aim ...
Jean-Charles Fabre, Yves Deswarte, Brian Randell
EMMCVPR
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Automatic Portrait System Based on And-Or Graph Representation
Abstract. In this paper, we present an automatic human portrait system based on the And-Or graph representation. The system can automatically generate a set of life-like portraits ...
Feng Min, Jin-Li Suo, Song Chun Zhu, Nong Sang
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Composing Mappings Between Schemas Using a Reference Ontology
Large-scale database integration requires a significant cost in developing a global schema and finding mappings between the global and local schemas. Developing the global schema r...
Eduard C. Dragut, Ramon Lawrence
BROADNETS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Integration of Web Services in Ambient-aware Sensor Network Applications
Sensor webs are heterogeneous collections of sensor devices that collect information and interact with the environment. They consist of wireless sensor networks that are ensembles ...
Isaac Amundson, Manish Kushwaha, Xenofon D. Koutso...