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EUROSSC
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Transforming Daily Life Objects into Tactile Interfaces
This article describes a few techniques to transform daily life objects into tactile interfaces, and presents the implementation details for three objects chosen as example: a ligh...
Alain Crevoisier, Cédric Bornand
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Calligraphic packing
There are many algorithms in non-photorealistic rendering for representing an image as a composition of small objects. In this paper, we focus on the specific case where the obje...
Jie Xu, Craig S. Kaplan
COMGEO
2007
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Geometric dilation of closed planar curves: New lower bounds
Given two points on a closed planar curve, C, we can divide the length of a shortest connecting path in C by their Euclidean distance. The supremum of these ratios, taken over all...
Annette Ebbers-Baumann, Ansgar Grüne, Rolf Kl...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Practical Heterogeneous Classifier for Relational Databases
Most enterprise data is distributed in multiple relational databases with expert-designed schema. Using traditional single-table machine learning techniques over such data not onl...
Geetha Manjunath, M. Narasimha Murty, Dinkar Sitar...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Scalability analysis of embarassingly parallel applications on large clusters
This work presents a scalability analysis of embarrassingly parallel applications running on cluster and multi-cluster machines. Several applications can be included in this catego...
Fabrício Alves Barbosa da Silva, Hermes Sen...