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COSIT
2003
Springer
129views GIS» more  COSIT 2003»
14 years 19 days ago
Linearized Terrain: Languages for Silhouette Representations
The scope of this paper is a qualitative description of terrain features that can be characterized using the silhouette of a terrain. The silhouette is a profile of a landform seen...
Lars Kulik, Max J. Egenhofer
PODS
2010
ACM
249views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 14 days ago
Semantic query optimization in the presence of types
Both semantic and type-based query optimization rely on the idea that queries often exhibit non-trivial rewritings if the state space of the database is restricted. Despite their ...
Michael Meier 0002, Michael Schmidt, Fang Wei, Geo...
ICDT
2001
ACM
86views Database» more  ICDT 2001»
13 years 12 months ago
Minimizing View Sets without Losing Query-Answering Power
Abstract. The problem of answering queries using views has been studied extensively due to its relevance in a wide variety of data-management applications. In these applications, w...
Chen Li, Mayank Bawa, Jeffrey D. Ullman
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Toward a psychophysically-based light reflection model for image synthesis
In this paper we introduce a new light reflection model for image synthesis based on experimental studies of surface gloss perception. To develop the model, we’ve conducted two ...
Fabio Pellacini, James A. Ferwerda, Donald P. Gree...
SP
1998
IEEE
106views Security Privacy» more  SP 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding Java Stack Inspection
Current implementations of Java make security decisions by searching the runtime call stack. These systems have attractive security properties, but they have been criticized as be...
Dan S. Wallach, Edward W. Felten