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2000
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Rendering Natural Waters
Creating and rendering realistic water is one of the most daunting tasks in computer graphics. Realistic rendering of water requires that the sunlight and skylight illumination ar...
Simon Premoze, Michael Ashikhmin
EMMCVPR
1999
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
On Fitting Mixture Models
Consider the problem of tting a nite Gaussian mixture, with an unknown number of components, to observed data. This paper proposes a new minimum description length (MDL) type crite...
Mário A. T. Figueiredo, José M. N. L...
ICS
1999
Tsinghua U.
15 years 8 months ago
Adapting cache line size to application behavior
A cache line size has a signi cant e ect on missrate and memorytra c. Today's computers use a xed line size, typically 32B, which may not be optimalfor a given application. O...
Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Weiyu Tang, Rajesh K. Gup...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Language for Specifying the Composition of Reliable Distributed Applications
This paper describes the design of a scripting language aimed at expressing task (unit of computation) composition and inter-task dependencies of distributed applications whose ex...
Frédéric Ranno, Santosh K. Shrivasta...
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CHI
1997
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
How to Personalize the Web
Agents can personalize otherwise impersonal computational systems. The World Wide Web presents the same appearance to every user regardless of that user’s past activity. Web Bro...
Rob Barrett, Paul P. Maglio, Daniel C. Kellem