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CCCG
2007
15 years 4 months ago
Medial Axis Approximation of Planar Shapes from Union of Balls: A Simpler and more Robust Algorithm
Given a dense sampling S of the smooth boundary of a planar shape O. We show that the medial axis of the union of Voronoi balls centered at Voronoi vertices inside O has a particu...
Joachim Giesen, Balint Miklos, Mark Pauly
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Semantic information portals
In this paper, we describe the notion of a semantic information portal. This is a community information portal that exploits the semantic web standards to improve structure, exten...
Dave Reynolds, Paul Shabajee, Steve Cayzer
122
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ICALT
2007
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Teaching Science subjects to Blind Students
Access to the disciplines of science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for blind and vision impaired people continues to be a problem. The inherently visual nature o...
Donal Fitzpatrick
107
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BTW
2007
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
Melting Pot XML: Bringing File Systems and Databases One Step Closer
: Ever-growing data volumes demand for storage systems beyond current file systems abilities, particularly, a powerful querying capability. With the rise of XML, the database comm...
Alexander Holupirek, Christian Grün, Marc H. ...
USENIX
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Automatic Optimization of Parallel Dataflow Programs
Large-scale parallel dataflow systems, e.g., Dryad and Map-Reduce, have attracted significant attention recently. High-level dataflow languages such as Pig Latin and Sawzall are b...
Christopher Olston, Benjamin Reed, Adam Silberstei...