World steel trade becomes more competitive every day and new high international quality standards and productivity levels can only be achieved by applying the latest computational...
Real-time rendering of vegetation is one of the most important challenges in outdoor scenes. This is due to the vast amount of polygons that are used to model vegetable species. M...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
The collaborative filtering approach to recommender systems predicts user preferences for products or services by learning past useritem relationships. In this work, we propose no...
In the proposed data model for XML databases, an XML element is directly represented as a ground (variable-free) XML expression—a generalization of an XML element by incorporatio...
Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama, Chutiporn Anutariya...