Performance analysis and capacity planning for e-commerce sites poses an interesting problem: how to best characterize the workload of these sites. Tradition al workload character...
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
Aging has considerable visual effects on the human face and is difficult to simulate using a universally-applicable global model. In this paper, we focus on the hypothesis that th...
Generating soft shadows in real time is difficult. Exact methods (such as ray tracing, and multiple light source simulation) are too slow, while approximate methods often overesti...
Xiao-Hua Cai, Yun-Tao Jia, Xi Wang, Shi-Min Hu, Ra...
A dynamic texture is a spatio-temporal generative model for video, which represents video sequences as observations from a linear dynamical system. This work introduces the mixtur...