—Enterprise computing is moving towards more open, collaborative systems. Joining a business network must be made efficient, despite the technical and semantic interoperability ...
Relational database systems have been the dominating technology to manage and analyze large data warehouses. Moreover, the ER model, the standard in database design, has a close r...
Carlos Ordonez, Il-Yeol Song, Carlos Garcia-Alvara...
Quantizers are generally designed either for fixed-rate coding or variable-rate coding. Under common conditions, variable-rate quantization leads to the same mean distortion for ...
Traditional approaches for modeling a closed manifold surface with either regular tensor-product or triangular splines (defined over an open planar domain) require decomposing th...
Abstract. Replication is a fundamental technique for increasing throughput and achieving fault tolerance in distributed data services. However, its implementation may induce signif...
Laurent Michel, Alexander A. Shvartsman, Elaine L....