In a visualization system, one of the key issues is to optimize performance and visual fidelity. This is especially critical for large virtual environments where the models do not...
Storage management of multidimensional arrays aims at supporting the array model needed by applications and insuring fast execution of access operations. Current approaches to sto...
We propose to utilize micro features, namely facial marks (e.g., freckles, moles, and scars) to improve face recognition and retrieval performance. Facial marks can be used in thr...
Abstract. In dynamic environments like the Web, data sources may change not only their data but also their schemas, their semantics, and their query capabilities.When a mapping is ...
Estimating the cardinality (i.e. number of distinct elements) of an arbitrary set expression defined over multiple distributed streams is one of the most fundamental queries of in...