This paper presents a novel beat detector that operates in the Huffman coded domain of a MP3 audio bitstream. We seek to answer two main questions. First, whether it is possible t...
We discuss some new geometric puzzles and the complexity of their extension to arbitrary sizes. For gate puzzles and two-layer puzzles we prove NP-completeness of solving them. No...
Helmut Alt, Hans L. Bodlaender, Marc J. van Krevel...
Despite practical successes with the Futamura projections, it has been an open question whether target programs produced by specializing interpreters can always be as efficient as ...
Microsoft SQL Server was successful for many years for transaction processing and decision support workloads with neither merge join nor hash join, relying entirely on nested loop...
Outsourcing has become common practice in the software industry. Organizations routinely subcontract the maintenance of their software assets to specialized companies. A great cha...