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SMA
2009
ACM
132views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Robust Voronoi-based curvature and feature estimation
Many algorithms for shape analysis and shape processing rely on accurate estimates of differential information such as normals and curvature. In most settings, however, care must...
Quentin Mérigot, Maks Ovsjanikov, Leonidas ...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Reducing the run-time of MCMC programs by multithreading on SMP architectures
The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov Chain Mont...
Jonathan M. R. Byrd, Stephen A. Jarvis, A. H. Bhal...
COMPGEOM
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
An empirical comparison of techniques for updating Delaunay triangulations
The computation of Delaunay triangulations from static point sets has been extensively studied in computational geometry. When the points move with known trajectories, kinetic dat...
Leonidas J. Guibas, Daniel Russel
VLDB
2004
ACM
161views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
Supporting top-k join queries in relational databases
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
UIST
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Bonfire: a nomadic system for hybrid laptop-tabletop interaction
We present Bonfire, a self-contained mobile computing system that uses two laptop-mounted laser micro-projectors to project an interactive display space to either side of a laptop...
Shaun K. Kane, Daniel Avrahami, Jacob O. Wobbrock,...