The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
— Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are often required to simultaneously process multiple diverse workloads while enforcing business policies that govern workload performance. ...
Wendy Powley, Patrick Martin, Mingyi Zhang, Paul B...
In this paper, we present methods for supporting autonomous updates in replicated databases. Autonomous updates are of particular importance to applications that cannot tolerate t...
Stefano Ceri, Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Arthur M. Kel...
Effective task-level control is critical for robots that are to engage in purposeful activity in realworld environments. This paper describes PRSLite, a task-level controller grou...
Object grasping is a typical human ability which is widely studied from both a biological and an engineering point of view. This paper presents an approach to grasp synthesis inspi...