Modeling and rendering of natural scenes with thousands of plants poses a number of problems. The terrain must be modeled and plants must be distributed throughout it in a realist...
Oliver Deussen, Pat Hanrahan, Bernd Lintermann, Ra...
Near-Video-on-Demand (NVOD) provides customers with a service model completely different from true Video-on-Demand (VOD). In the NVOD service model, customers’ requests are not ...
Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies a load shedding mechanism called...
Transactional events (TE) are an approach to concurrent programming that enriches the first-class synchronous message-passing of Concurrent ML (CML) with a combinator that allows ...
A lift curve, with the true positive rate on the y-axis and the customer pull (or contact) rate on the x-axis, is often used to depict the model performance in many data mining ap...