Surface elements (surfels) are a powerful paradigm to efficiently render complex geometric objects at interactive frame rates. Unlike classical surface discretizations, i.e., tri...
Hanspeter Pfister, Matthias Zwicker, Jeroen van Ba...
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...
A range query applies an aggregation operation over all selected cells of an OLAP data cube where the selection is speci ed by providing ranges of values for numeric dimensions. W...
Modern computer systems are called on to deal with billions of events every second, whether they are instructions executed, memory locations accessed, or packets forwarded. This p...
Rapidly simulating global illumination, including diffuse and glossy light transport is a very difficult problem. Finite element or radiosity approaches can achieve interactive si...