Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
Function Point Analysis (FPA) is a well-known method to measure the functionality of a system, from the user’s point of view. Both Albrecht’s original model and a local varian...
There are four crucial issues associated with performance simulators: simulator retargetability, simulator validation, simulation speed and simulation accuracy. This paper documen...
Bryan Black, Andrew S. Huang, Mikko H. Lipasti, Jo...
We describe a physically-based Monte Carlo technique for approximating bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for a large class of geometries by directly simulat...
Stephen H. Westin, James Arvo, Kenneth E. Torrance
Mining different types of communities from web data have attracted a lot of research efforts in recent years. However, none of the existing community mining techniques has taken i...
Qiankun Zhao, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Xin Zheng, Kai Y...