With the growth of the Internet and mobile communication industry, multimedia applications form a dominant computer workload. Media workloads are typically executed on Application...
Extending relational database functionality to include data mining primitives is one step towards the greater goal of more closely integrated database and mining systems. This pape...
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...
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...
To apply empty space skipping in texture-based volume rendering, we partition the texture space with a box-growing algorithm. Each sub-texture comprises of neighboring voxels with...