This paper addresses the search control problemof selecting whichplan to refine next for decision-theoretic planners, a choice point commonto the decision theoretic planners creat...
In this paper we present BBQ (Blended Browsing and Querying), a graphic user interface for seamlessly browsing and querying XML data sources. BBQ displays the structure of multipl...
Abstract. In this paper a semantic approach for the specification and the management of databases with evolving schemata is introduced. It is shown how a general object-oriented m...
We propose a real-time method for simultaneously refining the reconstructed volume of a human body with loose-fitting clothing and identifying body-parts in it. Time-series volumes...
Joins are among the most frequently executed operations. Several fast join algorithms have been developed and extensively studied; these can be categorized as sort-merge, hash-bas...