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ACMACE
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Familiars: representing Facebook users' social behaviour through a reflective playful experience
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
IWVF
2001
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Minimum-Length Polygons in Approximation Sausages
The paper introduces a new approximation scheme for planar digital curves. This scheme defines an approximating sausage ‘around’ the given digital curve, and calculates a mini...
Tetsuo Asano, Yasuyuki Kawamura, Reinhard Klette, ...
VISUALIZATION
2000
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Mastering interactive virtual Bronchioscopy on a Low-end PC
Virtual endoscopy presents the cross-sectional acquired 3D-data of a computer tomograph as an endoluminal view. The common approach for the visualization of a virtual endoscopy is...
Anna Vilanova, Balint Hegedüs, Eduard Grö...
GECCO
2006
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Multi-objective optimisation of the protein-ligand docking problem in drug discovery
The pharmaceutical industry is facing an ever-increasing demand to discover novel drugs that are more effective and safer than existing ones. The industry faces huge problem in im...
A. Oduguwa, A. Tiwari, S. Fiorentino, R. Roy
SC
1995
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Predicting Application Behavior in Large Scale Shared-memory Multiprocessors
In this paper we present an analytical-based framework for parallel program performance prediction. The main thrust of this work is to provide a means for treating realistic appli...
Karim Harzallah, Kenneth C. Sevcik