Alpha blending allows the simultaneous display of overlapping windows--such as palette windows in visual workspaces. Although alpha blending has been used in some applications, su...
Abstract--Amazon, Google, and IBM now sell cloud computing services. We consider the setting of a for-profit business selling data stream monitoring/management services and we inve...
Testing and debugging database software is often challenging and time consuming. A very arduous task for DB testers is finding a min-repro ? the "simplest possible setup"...
Collaborative annotation tools are in widespread use. The metadata from these systems can be mined to induce semantic relationships among Web objects (sites, pages, tags, concepts...
—The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose core and eight cores with a complete SIMD instruction set. Although originally designed for multimedia and gaming, it is current...