—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
Irradiance normal mapping is a method to combine two popular techniques, light mapping and normal mapping, and is used in games such as Half-Life 2 or Halo 3. This combination all...
We introduce a game theoretic model of network formation in an effort to understand the complex system of business relationships between various Internet entities (e.g., Autonomou...
Elliot Anshelevich, F. Bruce Shepherd, Gordon T. W...
To distribute risk in Grid, the design of service level agreements (SLAs) plays an important role, since these contracts determine the price for a service at an agreed quality lev...
Michael Becker, Nikolay Borrisov, Vikas Deora, Ome...
—For a service to be used in a commercial setting, certain service delivery functions such as monitoring, billing, authentication, etc need to be packaged with the service. Becau...
Muhammad Adeel Talib, Alan W. Colman, Jun Han, Jus...