Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
Reduction is a common component of many applications, but can often be the limiting factor for parallelization. Previous reduction work has focused on detecting reduction idioms a...
Taxonomy construction is a resource-demanding, top down, and time consuming effort. It does not always cater for the prevailing context of the captured information. This paper pro...
Eric Tsui, W. M. Wang, Chi Fai Cheung, Adela S. M....
SIFT is one of the most popular algorithms to extract points of interest from images. It is a scale+rotation invariant method. As a consequence, if one compares points of interest ...
—The increase in computational power of off-the-shelf hardware offers more and more advantageous tradeoffs among efficiency, cost and availability, thus enhancing the feasibil...
Giovanni Agosta, Alessandro Barenghi, Fabrizio De ...