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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Compressing term positions in web indexes
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
Hao Yan, Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel
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PDCN
2004
15 years 3 months ago
Speculative prefetching of optional locks in distributed systems
We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
Thomas Schöbel-Theuer
CGF
2007
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15 years 2 months ago
Global Illumination using Photon Ray Splatting
We present a novel framework for efficiently computing the indirect illumination in diffuse and moderately glossy scenes using density estimation techniques. Many existing global...
Robert Herzog, Vlastimil Havran, Shin-ichi Kinuwak...
GECCO
2010
Springer
230views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 7 months ago
Exponential natural evolution strategies
The family of natural evolution strategies (NES) offers a principled approach to real-valued evolutionary optimization by following the natural gradient of the expected fitness....
Tobias Glasmachers, Tom Schaul, Yi Sun, Daan Wiers...
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AFRIGRAPH
2003
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Rendering optimisations for stylised sketching
We present work that specifically pertains to the rendering stage of stylised, non-photorealistic sketching. While a substantial body of work has been published on geometric optim...
Holger Winnemöller, Shaun Bangay