Jacobson et al. [JKSH13] hypothesized that the local coherency of the generalized winding number function proposed in that work could be used to correctly determine consistent facet orientations in polygon meshes. We report on an approach to consistently orienting facets in polygon meshes by minimizing the Dirichlet energy of generalized winding numbers. While the energy can be concisely formul...

The Keck Virtual Factory Lab (KVFL) was created to be a platform for computationally-based research on industrial logistics systems, and currently engages nine faculty and over a dozen graduate students. Initially, the KVFL has focused on warehousing and the development of integrated computational tools to support warehouse design and optimization, and warehousing-related courses. Recent collab...

Data warehouses are complex systems consisting of many components which store highlyaggregated data for decision support. Due to the role of the data warehouses in the daily business work of an enterprise, the requirements for the design and the implementation are dynamic and subjective. Therefore, data warehouse design is a continuous process which has to reflect the changing environment of a ...

A data warehouse is an essential component to the decision support system. The traditional data warehouse provides only numeric and character data analysis. But as information technologies progress, complex data such as semi-structured and unstructured data become vastly used. Developing new data warehouse technologies to accommodate the demand of integrating complex data is important. In this ...

This paper proposes the design of Star Schema of a Data Warehouse and conversion to its equivalent Graph based Multi Dimensional Data Model (GMDDM Model). Design of Star Schema facilitates in constructing Graph based Multi Dimensional Data Model. The GMDDM model defines a set of graph based constructs that are used to specify the conceptual level design of Data Warehouse. Data warehouse represe...

Data warehouses have become an instant phenomenon in many large organizations that deal with massive amounts of information. Drawing on the experiences from the systems development ®eld, we surmise that an effective design tool will enhance the success of warehouse implementations. Thus, we present a CASE tool designed to generate the SQL queries necessary to build a warehouse from a set of ope...

Data warehouse [2,4,5,6] is an integrated repository derived from multiple source (operational and legacy) databases. The data warehouse is created by either replicating the different source data or transforming them to new representation. This process involves reading, cleaning, aggregating and storing the data in the warehouse model. The software tools are used to access the warehouse for str...

Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are unmanned vehicles that can transport loads in a warehouse. AGVs are instructed by on-board AGV control software. As multiple AGVs operate in a decentralized manner in the warehouse environment, conflicts may arise. Consequently, it is crucial to test thoroughly whether the AGV control software actually handles the potential conflicts in the appropriate way. ...

In many applications one has to fetch and assemble pieces of information coming from more than one SPARQL endpoints. In this paper we describe the corresponding requirements and challenges, and then we present a process for constructing such a semantic warehouse. We focus on the aspects of quality and value of the warehouse, and for this reason we introduce various metrics for quantifying its c...

This paper proposes a web warehouse based approach to facilitating efficiency improvement, information sharing and service personalization for the World Wide Web. We will overview various functions of a web warehouse by considering the following applications: (1) a web warehouse as shared information repository, (2) a web warehouse as large-scale intelligent cache. We conclude that web warehous...