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CAD
2012
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
Flexible shape control for automatic resizing of apparel products
We provide a flexible shape control technique in this paper for the automatic resizing of apparel products. The automatic resizing function has become an essential part of the 3D...
Yuwei Meng, Charlie C. L. Wang, Xiaogang Jin
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
143views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
14 years 17 days ago
Practical performance models for complex, popular applications
Perhaps surprisingly, no practical performance models exist for popular (and complex) client applications such as Adobe’s Creative Suite, Microsoft’s Office and Visual Studio...
Eno Thereska, Bjoern Doebel, Alice X. Zheng, Peter...
USS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Digital Objects as Passwords
Security proponents heavily emphasize the importance of choosing a strong password (one with high entropy). Unfortunately, by design, most humans are apparently incapable of gener...
Mohammad Mannan, Paul C. van Oorschot
ISAAC
2009
Springer
142views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Of Choices, Failures and Asynchrony: The Many Faces of Set Agreement
Abstract. Set agreement is a fundamental problem in distributed computing in which processes collectively choose a small subset of values from a larger set of proposals. The imposs...
Dan Alistarh, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Core...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Caching schemes for DCOP search algorithms
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is useful for solving agent-coordination problems. Any-space DCOP search algorithms require only a small amount of memory but can be spe...
William Yeoh, Pradeep Varakantham, Sven Koenig