Stone is widespread in its use as a building material and artistic medium. One of its most remarkable qualities is that it changes appearance as it interacts with the environment....
Julie Dorsey, Alan Edelman, Henrik Wann Jensen, Ju...
In large data warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to complex aggregate queries based on statistical summaries of the full data....
Swarup Acharya, Phillip B. Gibbons, Viswanath Poos...
Many networked applications could benefit from executing closer to the data or services with which they interact. By doing this they may be able to circumvent long communication l...
Dickon Reed, Ian Pratt, Paul Menage, Stephen Early...
Existing workflow management systems encapsulate the data and behavior of a process within its execution scope, preventing other processes from accessing this information until th...
Abstract--We consider the problem of coding images for transmission over error-prone channels. The impairments we target are transient channel shutdowns, as would occur in a packet...
Sergio D. Servetto, Kannan Ramchandran, Vinay A. V...