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TIP
1998
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An optimal polygonal boundary encoding scheme in the rate distortion sense
—In this paper, we present fast and efficient methods for the lossy encoding of object boundaries that are given as eight-connect chain codes. We approximate the boundary by a p...
Guido M. Schuster, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
VLDB
2002
ACM
91views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
15 years 3 months ago
Parametric Query Optimization for Linear and Piecewise Linear Cost Functions
The cost of a query plan depends on many parameters, such as predicate selectivities and available memory, whose values may not be known at optimization time. Parametric query opt...
Arvind Hulgeri, S. Sudarshan
CORR
2010
Springer
144views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
CLP-based protein fragment assembly
Abstract. The paper investigates a novel approach, based on Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), to predict the 3D conformation of a protein via fragments assembly. The fragments ar...
Alessandro Dal Palù, Agostino Dovier, Feder...
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ER
2010
Springer
121views Database» more  ER 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Reasoning with Optional and Preferred Requirements
Abstract. Of particular concern in requirements engineering is the selection of requirements to implement in the next release of a system. To that end, there has been recent work o...
Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos, Alexander Borgida,...
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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Improving mutual information-based visual servoing
— In a previous paper [3], we proposed a new way to achieve visual servoing. Rather than minimizing the error between the position of two set of geometric features, we proposed t...
Amaury Dame, Éric Marchand