: Over the recent years, very little effort has been made to give XPath a proper algebraic treatment. The only laudable exception is the Natix Algebra (NAL) which defines the tran...
A fast and robust 3D retrieval method is proposed based on a novel weighted structural histogram representation. Our method has the following steps: 1) adaptively segment any 3D sh...
This paper addresses the question of updating relational databases through XML views. Using query trees to capture the notions of selection, projection, nesting, grouping, and het...
Vanessa P. Braganholo, Susan B. Davidson, Carlos A...
We study the theory of lovely pairs of geometric structures, in particular o-minimal structures. We characterize "linear" theories in terms of properties of the correspon...
It is well-known that forward motion induces a large number of local minima in the instantaneous least-squares reprojection error. This is caused in part by singularities in the e...