As desktop computer computational power continues to increases dramatically, it is becoming commonplace to run a combination of deadline-sensitive applications. Despite the prolif...
Alpha blending allows the simultaneous display of overlapping windows--such as palette windows in visual workspaces. Although alpha blending has been used in some applications, su...
A key feature of relational database applications is managing plural relationships—one-to-many and many-to-many— between entities. However, since it is often infeasible to ado...
As VLSI technology scales toward 65nm and beyond, both timing and power performance of integrated circuits are increasingly affected by process variations. In practice, people oft...
Consistency maintenance of replicated data in multiplayer games is a challenging issue due to the performance constraints of real-time interactive applications. We present an appr...
Robert D. S. Fletcher, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Chri...