Multimedia databases deal with storage and retrieval of complex descriptors of image contents, called features. Traditional techniques consider features as “black boxes,” ofte...
In this study, we propose two algorithms for measuring the distance between shape boundaries. In the algorithms, shape boundary is represented by the Beam Angle Statistics (BAS), w...
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
It has long been recognized that multi-stream operators, such as union and join, often have to wait idly in a temporarily blocked state, as a result of skews between the timestamp...
Yijian Bai, Hetal Thakkar, Haixun Wang, Carlo Zani...
In this paper we describe XXL (eXtensible and fleXible Library), a toolkit for rapid prototyping query processing algorithms. XXL is a flexible, high-level, platform independent J...
Jochen Van den Bercken, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Bernh...