Abstract-- We introduce join scheduling algorithms that employ a balanced network utilization metric to optimize the use of all network paths in a global-scale database federation....
Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Andreas Terzis, Amo...
The management and access of distributed informational resources has emerged as an important requirement for scientific simulations using high-performance computing facilities. Bot...
Physically plausible illumination at real-time framerates is often achieved using approximations. One popular example is ambient occlusion (AO), for which very simple and efficie...
Abstract. A general principle of cortical architecture is the bidirectional flow of information along feedforward and feedback connections. In the feedforward path, converging con...
An arti cial life entertainment-software product called Creatures was released in Europe in late 1996 and in the United States and Japan in mid-1997. When installed on a domestic c...