DHT is a widely used building block for scalable P2P systems. However, as uniform hashing employed in DHTs destroys data locality, it is not a trivial task to support complex queri...
Abstract--With the increased presence of digital imaging devices, there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from pas...
The modeling of volumetric objects is still a difficult problem. Solid texture synthesis methods enable the design of volumes with homogeneous textures, but global features such a...
Kenshi Takayama, Olga Sorkine, Andrew Nealen, Take...
In this paper, we propose two novel techniques, which successfully address several major problems in the field of particle swarm optimization (PSO) and promise a significant breakt...
Serkan Kiranyaz, Turker Ince, E. Alper Yildirim, M...
We formulate and study a decentralized multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. There are distributed players competing for independent arms. Each arm, when played, offers i.i.d. reward a...