The reusability of available multimedia and middleware services brings new challenges for enabling flexible and efficient development and deployment of distributed end-to-end multimedia applications with specific ...

Resampling raw surface meshes is one of the most fundamental operations used by nearly all digital geometry processing systems. The vast majority of work in the past has focused on triangular remeshing; the equally important ...

Surface remeshing is a fundamental problem in computer graphics, and can be found in most digital geometry processing systems. The majority of work in this area has focused on remeshing with triangle elements, yet quadrilateral ...

Understanding people's commonsense knowledge about physical world is a fundamental problem in building intelligent systems. If this knowledge can be represented and used by computers, they can duplicate people's ability ...

With the emergence of ad hoc networking technology came efforts to provide necessary security support for ad hoc networks. However, due to challenging characteristics of ad hoc environments, providing the same level of ...

A finite difference approximation to the semiconductor device equations using the Bernoulli function approximation to the exponential function is described, and the robustness of this approximation is demonstrated. Sheikh's ...

Nowadays, many complex text search systems, such as Entity Search or Topic Search, have been proposed to allow users to retrieve fine granularity units (e.g., entities or topics) inside documents directly. As those search ...

We present a novel solution to streaming XPath query evaluation, capable of supporting forward and reverse axes queries. We show a conversion of an XPath query to a Visibly Pushdown Automaton that preserves the semantics ...

Numerical integration of ordinary differential equations resulting from the gravitation of nearby celestial small bodies is the subject of this thesis. We present three methods that alleviate the computational burden of ...