This paper addresses the problem of efficiently calculating shadows from environment maps in the context of ray-tracing. Since accurate rendering of shadows from environment maps ...
Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala
Bringing software process change to an organisation is a real challenge. The authors have shown a sample attempt to carry out a process change and then reflected on its results and...
Instruction set extensions (ISEs) can accelerate embedded processor performance. Many algorithms for ISE generation have shown good potential; some of them have recently been expa...
Theo Kluter, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne, Edoardo Ch...
The concurrent synchronous language Esterel allows proto treat reactive systems in an abstract, concise manner. An Esterel program is typically first translated into other, non-s...
Xin Li, Jan Lukoschus, Marian Boldt, Michael Harde...
CT With the development of dynamic compilers for Java, Java’s performance promises to rival that of equivalent C/C++ binary executions. This should ensure that Java will become t...