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STOC
1999
ACM
104views Algorithms» more  STOC 1999»
15 years 9 months ago
Fast Approximate PCPs
We investigate the question of when a prover can aid a verifier to reliably compute a function faster than if the verifier were to compute the function on its own. Our focus is ...
Funda Ergün, Ravi Kumar, Ronitt Rubinfeld
SIGGRAPH
1992
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Predicting reflectance functions from complex surfaces
We describe a physically-based Monte Carlo technique for approximating bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for a large class of geometries by directly simulat...
Stephen H. Westin, James Arvo, Kenneth E. Torrance
DAMAS
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Cognitive Agents for Sense and Respond Logistics
We present a novel cognitive agent architecture and demonstrate its effectiveness in the Sense and Respond Logistics (SRL) domain. Effective applications to support SRL must antic...
Kshanti A. Greene, David G. Cooper, Anna L. Buczak...
GROUP
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Design, implementation, and evaluation of an approach for determining when programmers are having difficulty
Previous research has motivated the idea of automatically determining when programmers are having difficulty, provided an initial algorithm (unimplemented in an actual system), an...
Jason Carter, Prasun Dewan
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
130views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 4 months ago
FlashLogging: exploiting flash devices for synchronous logging performance
Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...
Shimin Chen