Many researchers have been arguing that geometry, bump maps, and BRDFs present a hierarchy of detail that should be exploited for efficient rendering purposes. In practice howeve...
Wolfgang Heidrich, Katja Daubert, Jan Kautz, Hans-...
We discovered a surprising law governing the spatial join selectivity across two sets of points. An example of such a spatial join is "find the libraries that are within 10 m...
Christos Faloutsos, Bernhard Seeger, Agma J. M. Tr...
This paper presents database applications of the recently proposed Transaction Logic—an extension of classical predicate logic that accounts in a clean and declarative fashion f...
Anthony J. Bonner, Michael Kifer, Mariano P. Conse...
Users have begun downloading an increasingly large number of mobile phone applications in response to advancements in handsets and wireless networks. The increased number of appli...
William Enck, Machigar Ongtang, Patrick Drew McDan...
A link is an unreliable FIFO channel. As we mentioned earlier, it is an abstraction of a point-topoint wire or of a simple broadcast LAN. It is unreliable because noise or other ph...