In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
An interactive system is described for creating and animating deformable 3D characters. By using a hybrid layered model of kinematic and physics-based components together with an ...
Inverse multiplexing, or network striping, allows the construction of a high-bandwidth virtual channel from a collection of multiple low-bandwidth network channels. Striping syste...
Virtual Actors are at the heart of Interactive Storytelling systems and in recent years multiple approaches have been described to specify their autonomous behaviour. One well kno...