Studies show that roughly one-third of searches that are performed on the web require the user to initiate subsequent searches. Bates [1] theorized that with every search the user...
In today's society, people have very little control over what kinds of personal data are collected and stored by various agencies in both the private and public sectors. We de...
The J2EE platform provides a variety of options for making business data persistent using DBMS technology. However, the integration with existing backend database systems has prov...
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...
We present a tool for the user-controlled creation of multiresolution meshes. Several automatic mesh reduction methods of high quality have been presented in the past, but most of...