Crowd simulation can be considered as a special case of Virtual Environments where avatars are intelligent agents instead of user-driven entities. These applications require both ...
Guillermo Vigueras, Miguel Lozano, Carlos Perez, J...
Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We beli...
Al Schmidt, Jack Li, Landon P. Cox, Romit Roy Chou...
MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
One of the attractive features of Grid computing is that resources in geographically distant places can be mobilized to meet computational needs as they arise. A particularly chal...
Sparse matrices are first class objects in many VHLLs (very high level languages) used for scientific computing. They are a basic building block for various numerical and combinat...