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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Designing efficient sampling techniques to detect webpage updates
Due to resource constraints, Web archiving systems and search engines usually have difficulties keeping the entire local repository synchronized with the Web. We advance the state...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...
ETT
2002
77views Education» more  ETT 2002»
13 years 6 months ago
On the importance function in splitting simulation
The splitting method is a simulation technique for the estimation of very small probabilities. In this technique, the sample paths are split into multiple copies, at various stages...
Marnix J. J. Garvels, Jan-Kees C. W. van Ommeren, ...
PG
2007
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Image-Space Caustics and Curvatures
Caustics are important visual phenomena, as well as challenging global illumination effects in computer graphics. Physically caustics can be interpreted from one of two perspectiv...
Xuan Yu, Feng Li, Jingyi Yu
WAW
2007
Springer
89views Algorithms» more  WAW 2007»
14 years 11 days ago
Bias Reduction in Traceroute Sampling - Towards a More Accurate Map of the Internet
Traceroute sampling is an important technique in exploring the internet router graph and the autonomous system graph. Although it is one of the primary techniques used in calculati...
Abraham D. Flaxman, Juan Vera
VC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Efficient product sampling using hierarchical thresholding
Abstract We present an efficient method for importance sampling the product of multiple functions. Our algorithm computes a quick approximation of the product on-the-fly, based on ...
Fabrice Rousselle, Petrik Clarberg, Luc Leblanc, V...