Abstract. This paper proposes a global escape mechanism which can handle unexpected or unwanted conditions changing the default execution of distributed communicational flows, pres...
We consider the class of database programs and address the problem of minimizing the cost of their exchanges with the database server. This cost partly consists of query execution...
In this paper, we present an integrated system for skin deformation that is able to handle deformations due to both the skeleton animation and collisions. This method is based on ...
BSP trees and KD trees are fundamental data structures for collision detection in walkthrough environments. A basic issue in the construction of these hierarchical data structures...
Geography and social relationships are inextricably intertwined; the people we interact with on a daily basis almost always live near us. As people spend more time online, data re...