Scratches on old films must be removed since these are more noticeable on higher definition and digital televisions. Wires that suspend actors or cars must be carefully erased dur...
— In recent years, the research community introduced various methods for processing skyline queries in multidimensional databases. The skyline operator retrieves all objects bein...
Realistic rendering of materials such as milk, fruits, wax, marble, and so on, requires the simulation of subsurface scattering of light. This paper presents an algorithm for plau...
Tom Mertens, Jan Kautz, Philippe Bekaert, Hans-Pet...
We study the problem of e cient maintenance of materialized views that may contain duplicates. This problem is particularly important when queries against such views involve aggre...
MapReduce is a computing paradigm that has gained a lot of popularity as it allows non-expert users to easily run complex analytical tasks at very large-scale. At such scale, task...