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DAC
2006
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Automated design of pin-constrained digital microfluidic arrays for lab-on-a-chip applications*
Microfluidics-based biochips, also referred to as lab-on-a-chip (LoC), are devices that integrate fluid-handling functions such as sample preparation, analysis, separation, and de...
William L. Hwang, Fei Su, Krishnendu Chakrabarty
NPAR
2006
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Real-time rendering of cartoon smoke and clouds
We describe an algorithm for rendering animated smoke particle systems in a cartoon style. This style includes outlines and celshading. For efficient self-shadowing effects, we in...
Morgan McGuire, Andi Fein
SAC
2006
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Template detection for large scale search engines
Templates in web sites hurt search engine retrieval performance, especially in content relevance and link analysis. Current template removal methods suffer from processing speed ...
Liang Chen, Shaozhi Ye, Xing Li
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
CCGRID
2005
IEEE
16 years 2 days ago
Servicing range queries on multidimensional datasets with partial replicas
Partial replication is one type of optimization to speed up execution of queries submitted to large datasets. In partial replication, a portion of the dataset is extracted, re-org...
Li Weng, Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Tahs...