The broad-phase step of collision detection in scenes composed of n moving objects is a challenging problem because enumerating collision pairs has an inherent O(n2) complexity. S...
In order to guarantee efficient query processing together with industrial strength, spatial index structures have to be integrated into fully-fledged object-relational database ma...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Among the many attempts made to represent families of 2D shapes in a simpler way, the Medial Axis (MA) takes a prominent place. Its graphical representation is intuitively appealin...
Arjan Kuijper, Ole Fogh Olsen, Peter J. Giblin, Ma...
We present ViteX, an XPath processing system on XML streams with polynomial time complexity. ViteX uses a polynomial-space data structure to encode an exponential number of patter...
As the amount of textual information grows explosively in various kinds of business systems, it becomes more and more desirable to analyze both structured data records and unstruc...