In this paper we develop a theory for characterizing how deformable a shape is. We define a term called “deformability index” for shapes. The deformability index is computed ...
We study the impact of a set of industry, firm- and e-commerce-related factors on Internet firm survival. Through the use of one age-based and another calendar time-based Bayesian...
Online auctions are generating a new class of fine-grained data about online transactions. This data lends itself to a variety of applications and services that can be provided to...
Developing cost models for query optimization is significantly harder for XML queries than for traditional relational queries. The reason is that XML query operators are much mor...
Ning Zhang 0002, Peter J. Haas, Vanja Josifovski, ...
OrthogonalVariableSpreadingFactor(OVSF)codesareusedinUMTStosharetheradiospectrum among several connections of possibly different bandwidth requirements. The combinatorial core of t...