Abstract. Web-based applications are the most common form of distributed systems that have gained a lot of attention in the past ten years. Today many of us are relying on scores o...
Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities. A critical problem in a crisis situation is how t...
Li Zheng, Chao Shen, Liang Tang, Tao Li, Steven Lu...
Crowd simulation can be considered as a special case of Virtual Environments where avatars are intelligent agents instead of user-driven entities. These applications require both ...
Guillermo Vigueras, Miguel Lozano, Carlos Perez, J...
Finding images over the internet can be trying at best. Many industries such as advertising, marketing, image consultants, print media, and medical imaging deal with electronic im...
Relational XQuery systems try to re-use mature relational data management infrastructures to create fast and scalable XML database technology. This paper describes the main featur...
Peter A. Boncz, Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen,...