Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...
Many general-purpose, object-oriented scripting languages are dynamically typed, to keep the language flexible and not reject any programs unnecessarily. However, dynamic typing ...
Michael Furr, Jong-hoon (David) An, Jeffrey S. Fos...
We introduce a straightforward, robust, and efficient algorithm for rendering high-quality soft shadows in dynamic scenes. Each frame, points in the scene visible from the eye ar...
Gregory S. Johnson, Warren A. Hunt, Allen Hux, Wil...
Column-stores gained popularity as a promising physical design alternative. Each attribute of a relation is physically stored as a separate column allowing queries to load only th...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...