Recurrent event queries (REQ) constitute a special class of search queries occurring at regular, predictable time intervals. The freshness of documents ranked for such queries is ...
The Internet enables the way how global businesses and communities communicate today. In the last years, however, new demands have collided with old designs, resulting in a complex...
Carsten Schmoll, Christian Henke, Dirk Hoffstadt, ...
Visual information pervades our environment. Vision is used to de cide everything from what we want to eat at a restaurant and which bus route to take to whether our clothes match...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chandrika Jayant, Hanjie Ji, Gr...
We address schema design in uncertain databases. Since uncertain data is relational in nature, decomposition becomes a key issue in design. Decomposition relies on dependency theo...
Anish Das Sarma, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom
A major factor for the efficiency of ray tracing is the use of good acceleration structures. Recently, bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs) have become the preferred acceleration st...
Stefan Popov, Iliyan Georgiev, Rossen Dimov, Phili...