Database appliances offer fully integrated hardware, storage, operating system, database, and related software in a single package. Database appliances have a relatively long hist...
Cloud computing provides users near instant access to seemingly unlimited resources, and provides service providers the opportunity to deploy complex information technology infras...
Yun Mao, Changbin Liu, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, M...
We propose a new type of database system coined OctopusDB. Our approach suggests a unified, one size fits all data processing architecture for OLTP, OLAP, streaming systems, and...
Thyroid nodule segmentation is a hard task due to different echo structures, textures and echogenicities in ultrasound (US) images as well as speckle noise. Currently, a typical c...
Eva N. K. Kollorz, Elli Angelopoulou, Michael Beck...
Time-of-Flight (ToF) imaging is a promising technology for real-time metric surface acquisition and has recently been proposed for a variety of medical applications. However, due t...
Abstract. In the field of image-guided liver surgery (IGLS), the initial registration of the intra-operative organ surface with preoperative tomographic image data is performed on...
Abstract. Robust and accurate automatic detection of anatomical features on organic shapes is a challenging task. Despite a rough similarity, each shape is unique. To cope with thi...
Speed scaling is a power management technique that involves dynamically changing the speed of a processor. This gives rise to dual-objective scheduling problems, where the operati...
Nikhil Bansal, David P. Bunde, Ho-Leung Chan, Kirk...
Algorithms for determining quality/cost/price tradeoffs in saturated markets are consid-3 ered. A product is modeled by d real-valued qualities whose sum determines the unit cost ...
Joachim Gudmundsson, Pat Morin, Michiel H. M. Smid