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ESA
2003
Springer
58views Algorithms» more  ESA 2003»
15 years 9 months ago
Kinetic Dictionaries: How to Shoot a Moving Target
A kinetic dictionary is a data structure for storing a set S of continuously moving points on the real line, such that at any time we can quickly determine for a given query point ...
Mark de Berg
ESA
2008
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
How Reliable Are Practical Point-in-Polygon Strategies?
We experimentally study the reliability of geometric software for point location in simple polygons. As expected, the code we tested works very well for random query points. Howeve...
Stefan Schirra
ACE
2004
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15 years 5 months ago
Teaching Computer Architecture in Introductory Computing: Why? and How?
This paper discusses our rationale for teaching the fundamentals of computer architecture early in the computer science (CS) degree program. We also describe an active learning te...
Kris D. Powers
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Word Epoch Disambiguation: Finding How Words Change Over Time
In this paper we introduce the novel task of “word epoch disambiguation,” defined as the problem of identifying changes in word usage over time. Through experiments run using...
Rada Mihalcea, Vivi Nastase
ISSAC
2005
Springer
101views Mathematics» more  ISSAC 2005»
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Adherence is better than adjacency: computing the Riemann index using CAD
Given an elementary function with algebraic branch cuts, we show how to decide which sheet of the associated Riemann surface we are on at any given point. We do this by establishi...
James C. Beaumont, Russell J. Bradford, James H. D...