Volumetric effects such as beams of light through participating media are an important component in the appearance of the natural world. Many such effects can be faithfully modele...
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Providing accurate personalized information services to the users requires knowing their interests and needs, as defined by their User Models (UMs). Since the quality of the person...
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The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
— With the emergence of Voice over IP and other real-time business applications, there is a growing demand for an IP network with high service availability. Unfortunately, in tod...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Scott Rose, Kevin Bowers, Stephen Quirolgico, Kevi...