— We demonstrate ROX, a run-time optimizer of XQueries, that focuses on finding the best execution order of XPath steps and relational joins in an XQuery. The problem of join or...
Riham Abdel Kader, Peter A. Boncz, Stefan Manegold...
ion of Representation in Live Theater PPPPETERETERETERETER TTTTORPEYORPEYORPEYORPEY Opera of the Future, MIT Media Lab Disembodied Performance presents a new way to think about exp...
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...
Energy in sensor networks is a distributed, non-transferable resource. Over time, differences in energy availability are likely to arise. Protocols like routing trees may concent...
Geoffrey Werner Challen, Jason Waterman, Matt Wels...
We introduce a straightforward, robust, and efficient algorithm for rendering high-quality soft shadows in dynamic scenes. Each frame, points in the scene visible from the eye ar...
Gregory S. Johnson, Warren A. Hunt, Allen Hux, Wil...