A join of two relations in real databases is usually much smaller than their cartesian product. This means that most of the combinations of tuples in the crossproduct of the respe...
—This paper reports the design and development processes of a totally decoupled flexure-based XYZ parallel-kinematics micropositioning stage with piezoelectric actuation. The un...
Multi-FPGA systems are used as custom computing machines to solve compute intensive problems and also in the verification and prototyping of large circuits. In this paper, we addr...
For assembly tasks parts often have to be oriented before they can be put in an assembly. The results presented in this paper are a component of the automated design of parts orie...
Finding all the occurrences of a twig pattern on multiple elements in an XML document is a core operation for efficient evaluation of XML queries. Holistic twig join algorithms, Tw...