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SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Metropolis light transport
We present a new Monte Carlo method for solving the light transport problem, inspired by the Metropolis sampling method in computational physics. To render an image, we generate a...
Eric Veach, Leonidas J. Guibas
AAAI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Anytime Local Search for Distributed Constraint Optimization
Most former studies of Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DisCOPs) search considered only complete search algorithms, which are practical only for relatively small prob...
Roie Zivan
ICIA
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Effectiveness of Mobile Recommender Systems for Tourist Destinations: A User Evaluation
Mobile recommender systems have the potential to substantially enrich tourist experiences. As their handling marks a big challenge for ordinary users, its acceptance can only be e...
Marko Modsching, Ronny Kramer, Klaus ten Hagen, Ul...
COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Adapting to a Changing Environment: the Brownian Restless Bandits
In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal
PICS
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Prism-Based Color Separation for Professional Digital Photography
In the field of silver-halide photography, color separation was explored about a century ago, using filter mosaics, dichroic mirrors, three-shot filtration, and other techniques, ...
Richard F. Lyon