Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place...
Many web links mislead human surfers and automated crawlers because they point to changed content, out-of-date information, or invalid URLs. It is a particular problem for large, ...
Ocean circulation plays an important role in global climate change. In an effort to monitor ocean circulation an infrastructure of more than 3,000 buoys have been deployed in the ...
Collision detection in geometrically complex scenes is crucial in physical simulations and real time applications. Works based on spatial hierarchical structures have been propose...
It is challenging to process transactions in a timely fashion using fresh data, e.g., current stock prices, since database workloads may considerably vary due to dynamic data/reso...