This paper presents a new model for understanding the appearance of objects that exhibit both body and surface reflection under realistic illumination. Specifically, the model rep...
Bruce A. Maxwell, Richard M. Friedhoff, Casey A. S...
In a wireless ad hoc network, the main issue of a good broadcast protocol is to attain maximum reachability with minimal packet forwarding. Existing protocols address this issue by...
Md. Tanvir Al Amin, Sukarna Barua, Sudip Vhaduri, ...
In recent years, large distributed sensor networks have emerged as a new fast-growing application domain for wireless computing. In this paper, we present a distributed applicatio...
Sagnik Bhattacharya, Hyung Kim, Shashi Prabh, Tare...
The complexity of current computing networks and the required fluidity of their operation requires autonomy to be central to the design and implementation of a managed overlay net...
Dominic Jones, John Keeney, David Lewis, Declan O'...
We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...