Object-based video coding requires the transmission of the object shape. This shape is sent as a binary a-plane. In lossy packetbased networks, such as the Internet, this informat...
Guido M. Schuster, Xiaohuan Li, Aggelos K. Katsagg...
Functional testing of a query language is a challenging task in practice. In order to reveal errors in the query processing functionality, it is necessary to verify the actual res...
Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo, Angel Sa...
Modern distributed information systems cope with disconnection and limited bandwidth by using caches. In communicationconstrained situations, traditional demand-driven approaches ...
Mitch Cherniack, Eduardo F. Galvez, Michael J. Fra...
The XML Wrapper is a new feature of the federated database capabilities of DB2/UDB v8. It enables users and applications to issue SQL queries against XML data from a variety of so...
A plethora of data sources contain data entities that could be ordered according to a variety of attributes associated with the entities. Such orderings result effectively in a ra...