Control systems are typically designed assuming an ideal behavior of the computing infrastructure where controllers execute. In practice, however, in highly loaded computing syste...
Physical design for object-oriented databases is still in its infancy. Implementation decisions often intrude into the conceptual design (such as inverse links and object decompos...
When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...
Pre-computation and materialization of views with aggregate functions is a common technique in Data Warehouses. Due to the complex structure of the warehouse and the different pro...
Background subtraction is an essential processing component for many video applications. However, its development has largely been application driven and done in ad hoc manners. I...