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SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Interactive update of global illumination using a line-space hierarchy
Interactively manipulating the geometry of complex, globally illuminated scenes has to date proven an elusive goal. Previous attempts have failed to provide interactive updates of...
George Drettakis, François X. Sillion
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
127views Database» more  SIGMOD 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
Fast Parallel Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases
Most similarity search techniques map the data objects into some high-dimensional feature space. The similarity search then corresponds to a nearest-neighbor search in the feature...
Stefan Berchtold, Christian Böhm, Bernhard Br...
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
107views Database» more  SIGMOD 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
Range Queries in OLAP Data Cubes
A range query applies an aggregation operation over all selected cells of an OLAP data cube where the selection is speci ed by providing ranges of values for numeric dimensions. W...
Ching-Tien Ho, Rakesh Agrawal, Nimrod Megiddo, Ram...
STOC
1997
ACM
125views Algorithms» more  STOC 1997»
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An Interruptible Algorithm for Perfect Sampling via Markov Chains
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
James Allen Fill
AGENTS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Synthetic Minds
This paper discusses conditions under which some of the “higher level” mental concepts applicable to human beings might also be applicable to artificial agents. The key idea ...
Aaron Sloman