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...
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...
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...
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...
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...