An effective query optimizer finds a query plan that exploits the characteristics of the source data. In data integration, little is known in advance about sources' propertie...
This paper studies the problem of real time yard crane dispatching in container terminals. Many technologies, including transponders, RFID and GPS have been used in the container ...
Xi Guo, Shell-Ying Huang, Wen-Jing Hsu, Malcolm Yo...
We present a fast hardware-accelerated stippling method which does not require any preprocessing for placing points on surfaces. The surfaces are automatically parameterized in or...
Alexandra Baer, Christian Tietjen, Ragnar Bade, Be...
This paper describes a study of the levels at which different rhetorical relations occur in rhetorical structure trees. In a previous empirical study (Williams and Reiter, 2003) o...
Ad-hoc networks rely on participation and cooperation of nodes within the network to transmit data to destinations. However, in networks where participating nodes are controlled b...