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2005
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
Performance-constrained Distributed DVS Scheduling for Scientific Applications on Power-aware Clusters
Left unchecked, the fundamental drive to increase peak performance using tens of thousands of power hungry components will lead to intolerable operating costs and failure rates. H...
Rong Ge, Xizhou Feng, Kirk W. Cameron
SI3D
2005
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
ZP+: correct Z-pass stencil shadows
We present a novel algorithm for the rendering of hard shadows cast by a point light source. The well-known Z-pass method for rasterizing shadow volumes is not always correct. Our...
Samuel Hornus, Jared Hoberock, Sylvain Lefebvre, J...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
AIED
2005
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
The Use of Qualitative Reasoning Models of Interactions between Populations to Support Causal Reasoning of Deaf Students
Making inferences is crucial for understanding the world. The school may develop such skills but there are few formal opportunities for that. This paper describes an experiment de...
Paulo Salles, Heloisa Lima-Salles, Bert Bredeweg
AIED
2005
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
The Politeness Effect: Pedagogical Agents and Learning Gains
Pedagogical agent research seeks to exploit Reeves and Nass’s Media Equation, which holds that users respond to interactive media as if they were social actors. Investigations ha...
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Pao...