With the rising popularity of digital music archives the need for new access methods such as interactive exploration or similarity-based search become significant. In this paper ...
Robert Neumayer, Michael Dittenbach, Andreas Raube...
Based on existing reliable broadcast protocols in MANETs, we propose a novel reliable broadcast protocol that uses clustering technique and gossip methodology. We combine local ret...
SRS is a widely used system for integrating biological databases. Currently, SRS relies only on locally provided copies of these databases. In this paper we propose a mechanism th...
Peer-to-peer systems are gaining popularity as a means to effectively share huge, massively distributed data collections. In this paper, we consider XML peers, that is, peers that ...
In this paper we introduce, analyze and quantitatively compare a number of surface simplification methods for point-sampled geometry. We have implemented incremental and hierarchi...