Spatial joins are fundamental in spatial databases. Over the last decade, the primary focus of research has been on joins with the predicate “region intersection.” In modern da...
—Although IP Multicast is an effective network primitive for best-effort, large-scale, multi-point communication, many multicast applications such as shared whiteboards, multi-pl...
Assessing the reliability of a software system has always been an elusive target. A program may work very well for a number of years and this same program may suddenly become quit...
As access to hypermedia documents becomes generally available, it becomes increasingly important to understand how casual users search for information. We have studied search patt...
Nearly all major commercial computer-aided design systems have adopted a feature-based design approach to solid modeling. Models are created via a sequence of operations which app...