For decades, animated cartoons and movie special effects have factored the rendering of a scene into layers that are updated independently and composed in the final display. We ap...
: The read-mostly environment of data warehousing makes it possible to use more complex indexes to speed up queries than in situations where concurrent updatesare present. The curr...
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division; under joint sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research; the Naval Command, Control, and Ocean Surveillance Center; and the Naval S...
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...
We present an efficient and robust algorithm for finding points of collision between time-dependent parametric and implicit surfaces. The algorithm detects simultaneous collisio...
John M. Snyder, Adam R. Woodbury, Kurt W. Fleische...