Solar panels have been improving in efficiency and dropping in price, and are therefore becoming more common and economically viable. However, the performance of solar panels depends not only on the weather, but also on other external factors such as shadow, dirt, dust, etc. In this paper, we describe a simple and practical data-driven method for classifying anomalies in the power output of sol...

This paper proposes real-time interactive systems illuminating your shadows cast on the floor, which we name “Graphic Shadow.” They will make you experience an exciting space of interaction performing an illusion on your own shadow.

In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has limited knowledge about the data, often the user feels “left in the dark” when issuing queries, and has to use a try-and-see approach for finding information. In this paper, we study fuzzy type-ahead search in XML data, a...

In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has limited knowledge about the data, often the user feels “left in the dark” when issuing queries, and has to use a try-and-see approach for finding information. In this paper, we study fuzzy type-ahead search in XML data, a...

Proximity Keyword Search is especially useful when searching on the web and in long unstructured documents such as XML. This system is designed to handle novel features of Proximity Keyword Search in XML documents. It concentrates mainly on producing ranked results efficiently for keyword search queries over XML documents. The proposed system is first of its kind in which the keyword string is ...