Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
This paper presents an efficient method of mesh simplification for geometric 3D models. The transmission of 3D models on the Internet is an important task. The data size of a 3D m...
For decades, animated cartoons and movie special effects have factored the rendering of a scene into layers that are updated independently and composed in the final display. We ap...
Generating tool specific schemata and configuration information for OLAP database tools from conceptual graphical models is an important prerequisite for a comprehensive tool supp...