Abstract. We present an approach for robust shape retrieval from databases containing articulated 3D shapes. We represent each shape by the eigenvectors of an appropriately define...
Prior work on computing queries from materialized views has focused on views defined by expressions consisting of selection, projection, and inner joins, with an optional aggrega...
In European-funded project MIS under the MLIS programme, the authors attempted a computer-driven translation package for tourism texts in 5 languages. It was believed such a packa...
The elapsed time for external mergesort is normally dominated by I/O time. This paper is focused on reducing I/O time during the merge phase. Three new buffering and readahead str...
Mirroring is often used to enhance the reliability of disk systems, but it is usually considered expensive because it duplicates storage cost and increases the cost of writes. Tra...
Christos A. Polyzois, Anupam Bhide, Daniel M. Dias