We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
The performance of parallel query processing in a cluster of index servers is crucial for modern web search systems. In such a scenario, the response time basically depends on the...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
Audio rendering of impact sounds, such as those caused by falling objects or explosion debris, adds realism to interactive 3D audiovisual applications, and can be convincingly ach...
Nicolas Bonneel, George Drettakis, Nicolas Tsingos...
This paper presents an intelligent scissoring operator for meshes. Unlike common approaches that segment a mesh using clustering schemes, we introduce a method that concentrates o...
Yunjin Lee, Seungyong Lee, Ariel Shamir, Daniel Co...
Computational Grids potentially offer low cost, readily available, and large-scale high-performance platforms. For the parallel execution of programs, however, computational GRIDs ...
Abdallah Al Zain, Philip W. Trinder, Greg Michaels...