Compression in column-oriented databases has been proven to offer both performance enhancements and reductions in storage consumption. This is especially true for read access as c...
Abstract. With the adoption of tablet-based data entry devices, there is considerable interest in methods for converting hand-drawn sketches of flow charts, graphs and block diagr...
Akshaya Kumar Mishra, Justin A. Eichel, Paul W. Fi...
Today's digital libraries increasingly include not only printed text but also scanned handwritten pages and other multimedia material. There are, however, few tools available...
Performance of biometric-based recognition systems depends on various factors: database quality, image preprocessing, encoding techniques, etc. Given a biometric database and a se...
—With virtual machine technology, distributed services deployed in multiple cooperative virtual machines, such as multi-tier web services, may reside on one physical machine. Thi...