Materialized views (MV) can significantly improve the query performance of relational databases. In this paper, we consider MVs to optimize complex scenarios where many heterogen...
Leonardo Weiss Ferreira Chaves, Erik Buchmann, Fab...
We prove the existence of an algorithm A for computing 2-d or 3-d convex hulls that is optimal for every point set in the following sense: for every set S of n points and for ever...
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (DisPOMDPs) are emerging as a popular approach for modeling sequential decision making in teams operating under uncertain...
Robust extraction of text from scene images is essential for successful scene text recognition. Scene images usually have non-uniform illumination, complex background, and existen...
—This is a paper about a new resource, namely an English paraphrase dictionary extracted from the FrameNet lexicon and its example data base. I. THE LEXPAR PARAPHRASE DICTIONARY ...