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COMPGEOM
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Three problems about dynamic convex hulls
We present three results related to dynamic convex hulls: • A fully dynamic data structure for maintaining a set of n points in the plane so that we can find the edges of the c...
Timothy M. Chan
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Handwritten Character Extraction Algorithm for Multi-language Document Image
—In this paper, we propose a novel method for extracting handwritten characters from multi-language document images, which may contain various types of characters, e.g. Chinese, ...
Yonghong Song, Guilin Xiao, Yuanlin Zhang, Lei Yan...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Tashkent: uniting durability with transaction ordering for high-performance scalable database replication
In stand-alone databases, the two functions of ordering the transaction commits and making the effects of transactions durable are generally performed in one action, namely in the...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Fernando Pedone
ITICSE
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Evaluating the effectiveness of ICT to support globally distributed PBL teams
In the 21st century it is becoming increasingly common to work and learn in teams that are globally distributed. Such teams rely heavily on ICT to facilitate communication. There ...
Chew Swee Cheng, Chris Beaumont
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Spatial Join Selectivity Using Power Laws
We discovered a surprising law governing the spatial join selectivity across two sets of points. An example of such a spatial join is "find the libraries that are within 10 m...
Christos Faloutsos, Bernhard Seeger, Agma J. M. Tr...