1 We present a novel technique called Radiance Scaling for the depic-2 tion of surface shape through shading. It adjusts reflected light in-3 tensities in a way dependent on both s...
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Abstract. In focused coverage problem, sensors are required to be deployed around a given point of interest (POI) with respect to a priority requirement: an area close to POI has h...
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Many enterprise applications prefer to store XML data as a rich data type, i.e. a sequence of bytes, in a relational database system to avoid the complexity of decomposing the dat...
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In most enterprises, databases are deployed on dedicated database servers. Often, these servers are underutilized much of the time. For example, in traces from almost 200 producti...
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