Nonphotorealistic rendering (NPR) can help make comprehensible but simple pictures of complicated objects by employing an economy of line. But current nonphotorealistic rendering ...
Lee Markosian, Michael A. Kowalski, Daniel Goldste...
Aggregation in traditional database systems is performed in batch mode: a query is submitted, the system processes a large volume of data over a long period of time, and, eventual...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Peter J. Haas, Helen J. Wan...
A warehouse is a data repository containing integrated information for e cient querying and analysis. Maintaining the consistency of warehouse data is challenging, especially if t...
In many of today's applications, access to storage constitutes the major cost of processing a user request. Data prefetching has been used to alleviate the storage access lat...
Asynchronous IO (AIO) allows a process to continue to do other work while an IO operation initiated earlier completes. AIO allows a large number of random IO operations to be issu...
Suresh Iyengar, S. Sudarshan, Santosh Kumar 0002, ...