A three-dimensional virtual world simulation is described, where evolution takes place and it is possible to investigate behaviors of creatures in real-time. Bodies of these creatu...
We introduce a new class of primitive functions with non-linear parameters for representing light reflectance functions. The functions are reciprocal, energy-conserving and expres...
Eric P. Lafortune, Sing-Choong Foo, Kenneth E. Tor...
Traditionally, optimizers are “programmed” to optimize queries following a set of buildin procedures. However, optimizers should be robust to its changing environment to gener...
Complex design, targeting System-on-Chip based on reconfigurable architectures, still lacks a generalized methodology allowing both the automatic derivation of a complete system s...
Carlo Curino, Luca Fossati, Vincenzo Rana, Frances...
Modern software systems share with social organizations the attributes of being large-scale, distributed, and heterogeneous systems of systems. The organizational metaphor for soft...
Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus, Daniel Moldt, Michael ...