— Real-world databases often have extremely complex schemas. With thousands of entity types and relationships, each with a hundred or so attributes, it is extremely difficult fo...
Proactive contextual information systems help people locate information by automatically suggesting potentially relevant resources based on their current tasks or interests. Such ...
Daniel Billsus, David M. Hilbert, Dan Maynes-Aminz...
The tremendous increase in the use of cellular phones, GPS-like devices, and RFIDs results in highly dynamic environments where objects as well as queries are continuously moving. ...
Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xiaopeng Xiong, Moustafa A. Ham...
We present a real-time method for detecting deformable surfaces, with no need whatsoever for a priori pose knowledge. Our method starts from a set of wide baseline point matches b...
High availability for both data and applications is rapidly becoming a business requirement. While database systems support recovery, providing high database availability, applica...