Textures can often more easily be described as a composition of subtextures than as a single texture. The paper proposes a way to model and synthesize such "composite textures...
An important, largely unexplored area of computer image generation is the simulation of weathering and its effects on appearance. Weathering results from the interaction of the en...
Self-tuning is a cost-effective and elegant solution to the important problem of configuring a database to the characteristics of the query load. Existing techniques operate in an...
Karl Schnaitter, Serge Abiteboul, Tova Milo, Neokl...
Effective provisioning of next generation distributed applications hosted on diverse middleware platforms incurs significant challenges due to the applications’ growing complex...
Dimple Kaul, Arundhati Kogekar, Aniruddha S. Gokha...
Large numbers of dimensions not only cause clutter in multidimensional visualizations, but also make it difficult for users to navigate the data space. Effective dimension manage...
Jing Yang, Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rund...