We argue that civic discourse can also be public storytelling and propose three reasons to consider this relationship: stories’ relational nature – their ability to represent ...
Embedded systems are electronic devices that function in the context of a real environment, by sensing and reacting to a set of stimuli. Because of their close interaction with th...
Roberto Passerone, Jerry R. Burch, Alberto L. Sang...
The grid computing paradigm emerged recently as a new field distinguished from traditional distributed computing because of its focus on large-scale resource sharing and innovativ...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Italo Epicoco, D...
We present new techniques for interactive cinematic lighting design of complex scenes that use procedural shaders. Deep-framebuffers are used to store the geometric and optical in...
The Java language incurs a runtime overhead for exception checks and object accesses without an interior pointer in order to ensure safety. It also requires type inclusion test, d...