We investigate the problem of incremental maintenance of an SQL view in the face of database updates, and show that it is possible to reduce the total time cost of view maintenanc...
This paper presents a novel time-adaptive estimation technique by revisiting the classical Wiener-Hopf equation. Any convex and not necessarily differentiable function can be used...
We present a general approach for automatically matching electronic slides to videos of corresponding presentations for use in distance learning and video proceedings of conferenc...
Database transformations arise in many di erent settings including database integration, evolution of database systems, and implementing user views and data-entry tools. This paper...
For most users, authoring multimedia documents remains a complex task. One solution to deal with this problem is to provide template-based authoring tools but with the drawback of...