Partitioning within a B-tree, based on an artificial leading key column and combined with online reorganization, can be exploited during external merge sort for accurate deep read...
Data sets in large applications are often too massive to fit completely inside the computer's internal memory. The resulting input/output communication (or I/O) between fast ...
The concept of semantic and context aware intelligent systems provides a vision for the Information Society where the emphasis lays on computing applications that can sense context...
Minas Pertselakis, Dimitrios S. Frossyniotis, Andr...
Data-intensive, interactive applications are an important class of metacomputing (Grid) applications. They are characterized by large, time-varying data flows between data provid...
Abstract: An object space algorithm for computing shadows in dynamic scenes illuminated by area light sources is presented. A mesh with the shadow boundaries as well as other disco...