The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
XML has become the standard for data exchange for a wide variety of applications, particularly in the scientific community. In order to efficiently process queries on XML repres...
Derek Phillips, Ning Zhang 0002, Ihab F. Ilyas, M....
Abstract Advances in wireless sensor networks and positioning technologies enable new applications monitoring moving objects. Some of these applications, such as traffic managemen...
Density biased sampling (DBS) has been proposed to address the limitations of Uniform sampling, by producing the desired probability distribution in the sample. The ease of produc...
Due to variations of lighting conditions, camera hardware settings, and the range of skin coloration among human beings, a pre-defined skin-color model cannot accurately capture t...