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PE
2006
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Closed form solutions for mapping general distributions to quasi-minimal PH distributions
Approximating general distributions by phase-type (PH) distributions is a popular technique in stochastic analysis, since the Markovian property of PH distributions often allows a...
Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter
CGF
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
A Closed-Form Solution to Single Scattering for General Phase Functions and Light Distributions
Due to the intricate nature of the equation governing light transport in participating media, accurately and efficiently simulating radiative energy transfer remains very challeng...
Vincent Pegoraro, Mathias Schott, Steven G. Parker
FOCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Set Covering with our Eyes Closed
Given a universe U of n elements and a weighted collection S of m subsets of U, the universal set cover problem is to a-priori map each element u ∈ U to a set S(u) ∈ S contain...
Fabrizio Grandoni, Anupam Gupta, Stefano Leonardi,...
PODS
2008
ACM
165views Database» more  PODS 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Data exchange and schema mappings in open and closed worlds
In the study of data exchange one usually assumes an openworld semantics, making it possible to extend instances of target schemas. An alternative closed-world semantics only move...
Leonid Libkin, Cristina Sirangelo