This paper surveys and places into perspective a number of results concerning the D-BSP (Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel) model of computation, a variant of the popular BSP ...
Gianfranco Bilardi, Carlo Fantozzi, Andrea Pietrac...
We present the architecture and a performance assessment of an extensible query optimizer written in Venus. Venus is a general-purpose active-database rule language embedded in C+...
In this article, different techniques for 'pointer swizzling" are classified and evaluated for optimizing the access to main-memory resident persistent objects. To speed ...
In this paper, we tackle the problem of object detection and tracking in a new and challenging domain of wide area surveillance. This problem poses several challenges: large camera...
Abstract. Goal models have been used in Computer Science in order to represent software requirements, business objectives and design qualities. In previous work we have presented a...
Roberto Sebastiani, Paolo Giorgini, John Mylopoulo...