This paper addresses the problem of efficiently calculating shadows from environment maps in the context of ray-tracing. Since accurate rendering of shadows from environment maps ...
Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala
Parametric software effort estimation models consisting on a single mathematical relationship suffer from poor adjustment and predictive characteristics in cases in which the hist...
One of the key problems in forming a smooth model from input-output data is the determination of which input variables are relevant in predicting a given output. In this paper we ...
Alban P. M. Tsui, Antonia J. Jones, A. Guedes de O...
The most promising value predictors to date are the finite context method predictor and a recent improvement thereof, the differential finite context method predictor. Both predic...
—MapReduce is a data-driven programming model proposed by Google in 2004 which is especially well suited for distributed data analytics applications. We consider the management o...
Jorda Polo, David Carrera, Yolanda Becerra, Malgor...