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SIGGRAPH
1994
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
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
SIGGRAPH
1992
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Predicting reflectance functions from complex surfaces
We describe a physically-based Monte Carlo technique for approximating bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for a large class of geometries by directly simulat...
Stephen H. Westin, James Arvo, Kenneth E. Torrance
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
The game of scale: decision making with economies of scale
While diffusion of innovation topics in economics and majority games in game theory have been widely studied, the impact of economy-of-scale effects in aggregated decision making ...
Christopher J. Hazard, Peter R. Wurman
DSN
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
HC-BGP: A light-weight and flexible scheme for securing prefix ownership
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a fundamental building block of the Internet infrastructure. However, due to the implicit trust assumption among networks, Internet routing re...
Ying Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Y. C...
GRID
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Multi-objective planning for workflow execution on Grids
Utility Grids create an infrastructure for enabling users to consume services transparently over a global network. When optimizing workflow execution on utility Grids, we need to c...
Jia Yu, Michael Kirley, Rajkumar Buyya