Efficient user-adaptable similarity search more and more increases in its importance for multimedia and spatial database systems. As a general similarity model for multi-dimension...
The Numerical Propulsion System Simulation (NPSS) project has been initiated by NASA to explore the use of computer simulation in the development of new aircraft propulsion techno...
: The EM-4 is a supercomputer that offers very fast inter processor communication and support for multi threading. In this paper we demonstrate that the EM-4, Together with an auto...
The basic concept for processing spatial joins consists of two steps: First, the spatial join is performed on the minimum bounding rectangles of the objects by using a spatial acce...
The generation of efficient code for Prolog programs requires sophisticated code transformation and optimization systems. Much of the recent work in this area has focussed on hig...