Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...
—Effective image retrieval by content from database requires that visual image properties are used instead of textual labels to properly index and recover pictorial data. Retriev...
In [23] we presented a partial evaluation scheme for a “real life” subset of Prolog, containing first-order built-in’s, simple side-effects and the operational predicate i...
Image-based rendering is a powerful new approach for generating real-time photorealistic computer graphics. It can provide convincing animations without an explicit geometric repr...
We describe SCC-kS, a Speculative Concurrency Control (SCC) algorithm that allows a DBMS to use efficiently the extra computing resources available in the system to increase the l...