Abstract. The almost square rectangle packing problem involves packing all rectangles with sizes 1 × 2 to n × (n + 1) (almost squares) into an enclosing rectangle of minimal area...
The 3D shape of the human body is useful for applications in fitness, games and apparel. Accurate body scanners, however, are expensive, limiting the availability of 3D body mode...
A formal two-phase model of democratic policy deliberation is presented, in which in the first phase sufficient and necessary criteria for proposals to be accepted are determine...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Henry Prakken, Wietske V...
Flash memories are considered a competitive alternative to rotating disks as non-volatile data storage for database management systems. However, even if the Flash Translation Layer...
—We propose a method to improve traditional character-based PPM text compression algorithms. Consider a text file as a sequence of alternating words and non-words, the basic ide...