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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 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
PDCN
2004
13 years 10 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
168views more  CGF 2007»
13 years 9 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»
14 years 2 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...
AFRIGRAPH
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days 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