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CGF
2004
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15 years 5 months ago
A Biophysically-Based Spectral Model of Light Interaction with Human Skin
Despite the notable progress in physically-based rendering, there is still a long way to go before we can automatically generate predictable images of biological materials. In thi...
Aravind Krishnaswamy, Gladimir V. G. Baranoski
SIGGRAPH
1998
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Realistic Modeling and Rendering of Plant Ecosystems
Modeling and rendering of natural scenes with thousands of plants poses a number of problems. The terrain must be modeled and plants must be distributed throughout it in a realist...
Oliver Deussen, Pat Hanrahan, Bernd Lintermann, Ra...
PPSN
2000
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
ALIFE
2005
15 years 5 months ago
State Aggregation and Population Dynamics in Linear Systems
We consider complex systems that are composed of many interacting elements, evolving under some dynamics. We are interested in characterizing the ways in which these elements may b...
Jonathan E. Rowe, Michael D. Vose, Alden H. Wright
GLOBECOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
ATMA: Advertisement-Based TDMA Protocol for Bursty Traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks
Energy conservation is one of the primary goals of the majority of MAC protocols designed for wireless sensor networks. In Sensor-MAC (S-MAC), one of the first MAC protocols design...
Surjya Sarathi Ray, Ilker Demirkol, Wendi Rabiner ...