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GMP
2008
IEEE
142views Solid Modeling» more  GMP 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Deformation and Smooth Joining of Mesh Models for Cardiac Surgical Simulation
Abstract. This paper focuses on an important aspect of cardiac surgical simulation, which is the deformation of mesh models to form smooth joins between them. A novel algorithm bas...
Hao Li, Wee Kheng Leow, Ing-Sh Chiu, Shu-Chien Hua...
VLDB
2004
ACM
161views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 10 months ago
Supporting top-k join queries in relational databases
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
DASFAA
2008
IEEE
168views Database» more  DASFAA 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
SemanticTwig: A Semantic Approach to Optimize XML Query Processing
Twig pattern matching (TPM) is the core operation of XML query processing. Existing approaches rely on either efficient data structures or novel labeling/indexing schemes to reduce...
Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Jiaheng Lu, Bo Chen
OOPSLA
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Using early phase termination to eliminate load imbalances at barrier synchronization points
We present a new technique, early phase termination, for eliminating idle processors in parallel computations that use barrier synchronization. This technique simply terminates ea...
Martin C. Rinard
PODS
2005
ACM
118views Database» more  PODS 2005»
14 years 10 months ago
On the complexity of division and set joins in the relational algebra
We show that any expression of the relational division operator in the relational algebra with union, difference, projection, selection, constant-tagging, and joins, must produce ...
Dirk Leinders, Jan Van den Bussche