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ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Guiding a Theorem Prover with Soft Constraints
Attempts to use finite models to guide the search for proofs by resolution and the like in first order logic all suffer from the need to trade off the expense of generating and m...
John K. Slaney, Arnold Binas, David Price
LCTRTS
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Asynchronous software thread integration for efficient software
Existing software thread integration (STI) methods provide synchronous thread progress within integrated functions. For the remaining, non-integrated portions of the secondary (or...
Nagendra J. Kumar, Siddhartha Shivshankar, Alexand...
VLDB
2004
ACM
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14 years 25 days ago
Hardware Acceleration in Commercial Databases: A Case Study of Spatial Operations
Traditional databases have focused on the issue of reducing I/O cost as it is the bottleneck in many operations. As databases become increasingly accepted in areas such as Geograp...
Nagender Bandi, Chengyu Sun, Amr El Abbadi, Divyak...
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
On Guaranteed Smooth Scheduling For Input-Queued Switches
— Input-queued switches are used extensively in the design of high-speed routers. As switch speeds and sizes increase, the design of the switch scheduler becomes a primary challe...
Isaac Keslassy, Murali S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman...
SIGGRAPH
2003
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
Interactive rendering of translucent deformable objects
Realistic rendering of materials such as milk, fruits, wax, marble, and so on, requires the simulation of subsurface scattering of light. This paper presents an algorithm for plau...
Tom Mertens, Jan Kautz, Philippe Bekaert, Hans-Pet...