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Spatial Color Indexing Using Rotation, Translation, and Scale Invariant Anglograms
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-12)
As color plays an essential role in image composition, many color indexing techniques have been studied for content-based image retrieval. This paper examines the use of a computational geometry-based spatial color indexing ...
TIMBER: A native XML database
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002-12)
This paper describes the overall design and architecture of the Timber XML database system currently being implemented at the University of Michigan. The system is based upon a bulk algebra for manipulating trees, and ...
Optically Driven Quantum Computing Devices Based on Semiconductor Quantum Dots
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2004-10)
This paper concerns optically driven quantum logic devices based on semiconductor quantum dots. It provides a brief review of recent theoretical and experimental progress towards building such devices and a description of ...
Analysis of Vowels in Sung Queries for a Music Information Retrieval System
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-07)
A method for analyzing and categorizing the vowels of a sung query is described and analyzed. This query system uses a combination of spectral analysis and parametric clustering techniques to divide a single query into ...
Back to basics: Learning about employee energy and motivation from running on my treadmill
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005)
In an effort to understand how to optimize employee energy at work, we borrow from the sports physiology literature to develop and test several concepts that have now been used in more than 75 large and small organizations ...
Setting people up for success: How the Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel gets the best from its people
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
In China, where many multinational companies face a constant shortage of talent and high employee turnover, the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel has been able to attract, develop, and retain high-quality talent to deliver excellent ...
Radical HRM innovation and competitive advantage: The Moneyball story
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
Moneyball (Lewis, 2003), a New York Times bestseller, is a book about baseball. When read through a broader lens, however, Moneyball is also a book about innovation, resistance to change, competitive advantage, achieving ...
Congregation Formation in Multiagent Systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-07)
We present congregating both as a metaphor for describing and modeling multiagent systems (MAS) and as a means for reducing coordination costs in large-scale MAS. When agents must search for other agents to interact with, ...
Planning and Resource Allocation for Hard Real-time, Fault-Tolerant Plan Execution
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-03)
We describe the interface between a real-time resource allocation system with an AI planner in order to create fault-tolerant plans that are guaranteed to execute in hard real-time. The planner specifies the task set and ...
One-dimensional and multi-dimensional substring selectivity estimation
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000-12)
With the increasing importance of XML, LDAP directories, and text-based information sources on the Internet, there is an ever-greater need to evaluate queries involving (sub)string matching. In many cases, matches need to ...