The ability to decompose a complex, long-running query into simpler queries that produce the same result is useful for many scenarios, such as admission control, resource manageme...
Nicolas Bruno, Vivek R. Narasayya, Ravishankar Ram...
Ray tracing and Monte-Carlo based global illumination, as well as radiosity and other finite-element based global illumination methods, all require repeated evaluation of quantita...
Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischin...
Soon, much of the data exchanged over the Internet will be encoded in XML, allowing for sophisticated filtering and content-based routing. We have built a filtering engine called ...
Yanlei Diao, Peter M. Fischer, Michael J. Franklin...
There are two broad approaches to query evaluation over probabilistic databases: (1) Intensional Methods proceed by manipulating expressions over symbolic events associated with u...
In this paper we propose a fundamental approach to perform the class of Nearest Neighbor (NN) queries, the core class of queries used in many of the location-based services, withou...