The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
In this paper, we present an automatic statistical approach for extracting 3D blood vessels from time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) data. The voxels of the d...
M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, Stephen Hushek, T...
Designing and optimizing high performance microprocessors is an increasingly difficult task due to the size and complexity of the processor design space, high cost of detailed si...
P. J. Joseph, Kapil Vaswani, Matthew J. Thazhuthav...
Distributed virtual environments allow users at di erent geographical locations to share and interact within a common virtual environment via a local network or through the Intern...
Jimmy H. P. Chim, Rynson W. H. Lau, Antonio Si, Ho...
A person working with diverse information sources--with possibly different formats and information models--may recognize and wish to express conceptual structures that are not exp...
Sudarshan Murthy, Lois M. L. Delcambre, David Maie...