A simple variant of a priority queue, called a soft heap, is introduced. The data structure supports the usual operations: insert, delete, meld, and findmin. Its novelty is to beat...
Web-based data sources, particularly in Life Sciences, grow in diversity and volume. Most of the data collections are equipped with common document search, hyperlink and retrieval...
Stephan Heymann, Katja Tham, Axel Kilian, Gunnar W...
Bare Earth gridded digital elevation models (DEMs) are often used to extract hydrologic features such as rivers and watersheds. DEMs must be conditioned by removing spurious sinks...
Clock skew minimization has been an important design constraint. However, due to the complexity of Process, Voltage, and Temperature (PVT) variations, the minimization of clock sk...
Despite increasing popularity, Location-based Services (LBS) (e.g., searching nearby points-of-interest on map) on mobile handheld devices have been subject to major privacy conce...