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EGH
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Object partitioning considered harmful: space subdivision for BVHs
A major factor for the efficiency of ray tracing is the use of good acceleration structures. Recently, bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs) have become the preferred acceleration st...
Stefan Popov, Iliyan Georgiev, Rossen Dimov, Phili...
IFM
2010
Springer
190views Formal Methods» more  IFM 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
On Model Checking Techniques for Randomized Distributed Systems
Abstract. The automata-based model checking approach for randomized distributed systems relies on an operational interleaving semantics of the system by means of a Markov decision ...
Christel Baier
GECCO
2007
Springer
256views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
A particle swarm optimization approach for estimating parameter confidence regions
Point estimates of the parameters in real world models convey valuable information about the actual system. However, parameter comparisons and/or statistical inference requires de...
Praveen Koduru, Stephen Welch, Sanjoy Das
CORR
2010
Springer
141views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
The Equivalence of Sampling and Searching
In a sampling problem, we are given an input x {0, 1} n , and asked to sample approximately from a probability distribution Dx over poly (n)-bit strings. In a search problem, we ...
Scott Aaronson
CORR
2008
Springer
172views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Altruism in Congestion Games
This paper studies the effects of introducing altruistic agents into atomic congestion games. Altruistic behavior is modeled by a trade-off between selfish and social objectives. ...
Martin Hoefer, Alexander Skopalik