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CA
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Modeling and Deformation of the Human Body using an Anatomically-Based Approach
In this paper we propose a method to simulate human beings based on anatomy concepts. We believe that the closer our model is to reality, the better will be our results. Using thi...
Luciana Porcher Nedel, Daniel Thalmann
DL
1999
Springer
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Constructing Web Views from Automated Navigation Sessions
Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are...
Nadav Zin, Mark Levene
INFOVIS
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information?
We examine how animating a viewpoint change in a spatial information system affects a user's ability to build a mental map of the information in the space. We found that anim...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Angela Boltman
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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The DataPath system: a data-centric analytic processing engine for large data warehouses
Since the 1970’s, database systems have been “compute-centric”. When a computation needs the data, it requests the data, and the data are pulled through the system. We belie...
Subi Arumugam, Alin Dobra, Christopher M. Jermaine...
ERSHOV
2001
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
Academic vs. Industrial Software Engineering: Closing the Gap
We argue that there is a gap between software engineering cultivated in the universities and industrial software development. We believe that it is possible to get academia and ind...
Andrey N. Terekhov, Len Erlikh
SPAA
2010
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Simplifying concurrent algorithms by exploiting hardware transactional memory
We explore the potential of hardware transactional memory (HTM) to improve concurrent algorithms. We illustrate a number of use cases in which HTM enables significantly simpler c...
Dave Dice, Yossi Lev, Virendra J. Marathe, Mark Mo...
ISCAS
2002
IEEE
149views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2002»
14 years 15 days ago
Adaptive end-to-end optimization of mobile video streaming using QoS negotiation
Video streaming over wireless links is a non-trivial problem due to the large and frequent changes in the quality of the underlying radio channel combined with latency constraints...
Jacco R. Taal, Koen Langendoen, Arjen van der Scha...
ICWL
2003
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Perspectives on Creativity in Web learning
Creativity is an important asset in today’s fast changing environment. We believe it can and should be stimulated in educational environments, through the use of tools and carefu...
Adriana Santarosa Vivacqua, Francisco Mattos, Albe...
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Extracting unstructured data from template generated web documents
We propose a novel approach that identifies web page templates and extracts the unstructured data. Extracting only the body of the page and eliminating the template increases the ...
Ling Ma, Nazli Goharian, Abdur Chowdhury, Misun Ch...
AMKM
2003
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Experience in Using RDF in Agent-Mediated Knowledge Architectures
We report on experience with using RDF to provide a rich content language for use with FIPA agent toolkits, and on RDFS as a metadata language. We emphasise their utility for prog...
Kit-ying Hui, Stuart Chalmers, Peter M. D. Gray, A...