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SIGGRAPH
1999
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Direct Illumination with Lazy Visibility Evaluation
In this paper we present a technique for computing the direct lighting in a three-dimensional scene containing area light sources. Our method correctly handles partial visibility ...
David Hart, Philip Dutré, Donald P. Greenbe...
ICMCS
1999
IEEE
150views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 1999»
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DIVeR: A Dynamic Interactive Video Retrieval Protocol for Disk Array Based Servers
Video-on-demand (VOD) is a very promising multimedia application of the near future. In order for such a service to be commercially viable, efficient storage and retrieval schemes...
Senthil Sengodan, Victor O. K. Li
ICSE
1999
IEEE-ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Experience with Performing Architecture Tradeoff Analysis
Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
SPAA
1998
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Lamport Clocks: Verifying a Directory Cache-Coherence Protocol
Modern shared-memory multiprocessors use complex memory system implementations that include a variety of non-trivial and interacting optimizations. More time is spent in verifying...
Manoj Plakal, Daniel J. Sorin, Anne Condon, Mark D...
FQAS
1998
Springer
133views Database» more  FQAS 1998»
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Estimating the Quality of Databases
Abstract. With more and more electronic information sources becoming widely available, the issue of the quality of these often-competing sources has become germane. We propose a st...
Amihai Motro, Igor Rakov