Two new spatial join operations, distance join and distance semijoin, are introduced where the join output is ordered by the distance betweenthe spatialattribute values ofthe join...
Metadata is an important way of creating order in emerging distributed digital library collections. This paper presents an analysis of ethnographic data gathered in a university l...
In this paper, we propose architectural support for object manipulation, stack processing and method invocation to enhance the execution speed of Java bytecodes. First, a virtual a...
Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, N. Ranganathan, Ravi Gade...
Digital watermarking is a nascent but promising technology that offers protection of unencrypted digital content. This paper is a brief technical survey of the multimedia watermark...
Lesley R. Matheson, Stephen G. Mitchell, Talal Sha...
This paper presents an extension of Bayesian networks (BN) applied to reliability analysis. We developed a general methodology for modelling reliability of complex systems based o...