One of the key tenets of database system design is making efficient use of storage and memory resources. However, existing database system implementations are actually extremely ...
We present a framework for extracting image contours based on geometric and structural consistency among edge element locations and orientations. The paper presents two contributi...
We present data from detailed observation of 24 information workers that shows that they experience work fragmentation as common practice. We consider that work fragmentation has ...
Abstract— In this paper, we address navigation and coordination methods that allow swarms of robots to converge and spread along complex 2D shapes in environments containing unkn...
Today’s Web browsers allow users to open links in new windows or tabs. This action, which we call ‘branching’, is sometimes performed on search results when the user plans t...