XML database systems are expected to handle increasingly complex queries over increasingly large and highly structured XML databases. An important problem that needs to be solved ...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
Skyline query has been gaining much interest in database research communities in recent years. Most existing studies focus mainly on centralized systems, and resolving the problem...
Shiyuan Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Anthony K. H. Tung, L...
We present a query architecture in which join operators are decomposed into their constituent data structures (State Modules, or SteMs), and dataflow among these SteMs is managed ...
Vijayshankar Raman, Amol Deshpande, Joseph M. Hell...
Abstract-- This paper describes a novel method for creating surface models of multi-material components using dual energy computed tomography (DECT). The application scenario is me...
Christoph Heinzl, Johann Kastner, Eduard Grölle...
We propose an algorithm to find piecewise linear skeletons of hand-written characters by using principal curves. The development of the method was inspired by the apparent similar...