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GMP
2006
IEEE
118views Solid Modeling» more  GMP 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Computing a Family of Skeletons of Volumetric Models for Shape Description
Skeletons are important shape descriptors in object representation and recognition. Typically, skeletons of volumetric models are computed using iterative thinning. However, tradi...
Tao Ju, Matthew L. Baker, Wah Chiu
WEA
2009
Springer
165views Algorithms» more  WEA 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
On Computational Models for Flash Memory Devices
Flash memory-based solid-state disks are fast becoming the dominant form of end-user storage devices, partly even replacing the traditional hard-disks. Existing two-level memory hi...
Deepak Ajwani, Andreas Beckmann, Riko Jacob, Ulric...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Social tags: meaning and suggestions
This paper aims to quantify two common assumptions about social tagging: (1) that tags are “meaningful” and (2) that the tagging process is influenced by tag suggestions. For...
Fabian M. Suchanek, Milan Vojnovic, Dinan Gunaward...
PUC
2002
85views more  PUC 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
The Media Equation Does Not Always Apply: People are not Polite Towards Small Computers
: The Media Equation asserts that people treat and behave towards computers in much the same way as towards other people, for example regarding politeness. We report the results of...
Mikael Goldstein, Gunilla Alsiö, Jost Werdenh...
TCS
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Towards practical feasibility of core computation in data exchange
Abstract. Core computation in data exchange is concerned with materializing the minimal target database for a given source database. Gottlob and Nash have recently shown that the c...
Reinhard Pichler, Vadim Savenkov