In this paper we develop a theory for characterizing how deformable a shape is given a sequence of its observations. We define a term called ‘‘deformability index’’ (DI) ...
One of the most compelling social questions, which until now was left unanswered by current technology, is "Who's that?" This question is usually asked about a new ...
Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Sirisha Akkala, Jack E...
Mobile sensing and mapping applications are becoming more prevalent because sensing hardware is becoming more portable and more affordable. However, most of the hardware uses small...
Eiman Kanjo, Steve Benford, Mark Paxton, Alan Cham...
We study the efficient evaluation of top-k queries over data items, where the score of each item is dynamically computed by applying an item-specific function whose parameter valu...
Lin Guo, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jay...
Schema mapping composition is a fundamental operation in schema management and data exchange. The mapping composition problem has been extensively studied for a number of mapping ...