: XML is rapidly emerging as a standard for exchanging business data on the World Wide Web. For the foreseeable future, however, most business data will continue to be stored in re...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Eugene J. Shekita, Rimon...
This paper discusses ongoing research on scientific workflows at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (IC - UNICAMP) Brazil. Our projects with bio-scientists have le...
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, José de Jesús Pérez Al...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
Implementing first-class continuations can pose a challenge if the target machine makes no provisions for accessing and re-installing the run-time stack. In this paper, we present...
Greg Pettyjohn, John Clements, Joe Marshall, Shrir...
Efficient and accurate fitting of Active Appearance Models (AAM) is a key requirement for many applications. The most efficient fitting algorithm today is Inverse Compositiona...