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VLDB
1997
ACM
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An Efficient Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server
In this paper we describe novel techniques that make it possible to build an industrial-strength tool for automating the choice of indexes in the physical design of a SQL database...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek R. Narasayya
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APN
1993
Springer
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Transient Analysis of Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Nets
This paper introduces an efficient numerical algorithm for transient analysis of deterministic and stochastic Petri nets (DSPNs) and other discrete-event stochastic systems with ...
Hoon Choi, Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni, Kishor S. Trived...
SIGMOD
1993
ACM
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Design and Implementation of the Glue-Nail Database System
We describe the design and implementation of the Glue-Nail database system. The Nail language is a purely declarative query language; Glue is a procedural language used for nonque...
Marcia A. Derr, Shinichi Morishita, Geoffrey Phipp...
SIGGRAPH
1994
ACM
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Textures and radiosity: controlling emission and reflection with texture maps
In this paper we discuss the efficient and accurate incorporation of texture maps into a hierarchical Galerkin radiosity algorithm. This extension of the standard algorithm allows...
Reid Gershbein, Peter Schröder, Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH
1994
ACM
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A clustering algorithm for radiosity in complex environments
We present an approach for accelerating hierarchical radiosity by clustering objects. Previous approaches constructed effective hierarchies by subdividing surfaces, but could not ...
Brian E. Smits, James Arvo, Donald P. Greenberg