The increasing popularity of persistent worlds and the predicted rise of pervasive gaming, both having a strong inherent potential for role-playing, stress a classical challenge o...
We present some architectural and technological insights on SAP’s HANA database and derive research challenges for future enterprise application development. The HANA database m...
Joos-Hendrik Boese, Cafer Tosun, Christian Mathis,...
I/O is a major performance bottleneck in modern computer systems. Modern disks use the Zone-Bit-Recording (ZBR) technology to increase the capacity. A direct consequence of ZBR is...
The goal of this research is to lay the foundations for a formal theory , that abstracts from the procedural and interactive aspects involved in the generation of dramatic content....
This paper forms a continuation of our work focused on exploiting film grammar for the task of automated film understanding. We examine film rhythm, a powerful narrative concept u...