: Search engines--"web dragons"--are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. They do not publish the algorithms they use to sort...
Estimates of predicate selectivities by database query optimizers often differ significantly from those actually encountered during query execution, leading to poor plan choices a...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
The logical and algorithmic properties of stable conditional independence (CI) as an alternative structural representation of conditional independence information are investigated...
Abstract Image alignment has been a long standing problem in computer vision. Parameterized Appearance Models (PAMs) such as the Lucas-Kanade method, Eigentracking, and Active Appe...