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SIGGRAPH
1995
ACM
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Multi-level direction of autonomous creatures for real-time virtual environments
There have been several recent efforts to build behavior-based autonomous creatures. While competent autonomous action is highly desirable, there is an important need to integrate...
Bruce Blumberg, Tinsley A. Galyean
UKCBR
1995
15 years 10 months ago
Self-Questioning and Experimentation: An Index Vocabulary of Situated Interaction
Various cognitive and computational models have addressed the use of previous experience to understand a new domain. In particular, research in case-based reasoning has explored t...
Rüdiger Oehlmann, Peter Edwards, Derek H. Sle...
VLDB
1995
ACM
71views Database» more  VLDB 1995»
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Database De-Centralization - A Practical Approach
We describe a scheme to fragment and distribute centralized databases. ’ The problem is motivated by trends towards down-sizing and reorganization, reflecting actual, often dist...
Tor Didriksen, César A. Galindo-Legaria, Ei...
COMPGEOM
1994
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Spheres, Molecules, and Hidden Surface Removal
We devise techniques to manipulate a collection of loosely interpenetrating spheres in threedimensional space. Our study is motivated by the representation and manipulation of mol...
Dan Halperin, Mark H. Overmars
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STOC
1991
ACM
93views Algorithms» more  STOC 1991»
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Rounds in Communication Complexity Revisited
The k-round two-party communication complexity was studied in the deterministic model by [14] and [4] and in the probabilistic model by [20] and [6]. We present new lower bounds th...
Noam Nisan, Avi Wigderson