We present an extension to common realtime toon/cel-shading rendering techniques for treating reflective and transparent surfaces in a 3D toon-shading environment. Our approach takes advantage of multi texturing hardware and simple fragment and vertex shader programs. This allows a broad usage on todays gaming platforms.

The implementation of the Profile Interchange Format (PIF) for Technology CAD (TCAD) purposes is demonstrated. An application program interface for use with process and device simulation tools coded in FORTRAN, C and LISP is presented, capable of performing convenient, fast and flexible access to an extendable binary data format which fulfills todays and future needs for physical and logical TC...

The goal of my presentation is to explain what Descriptive Geometry is good for and in which way the Descriptive Geometry education is carried out in European countries. By definition, Descriptive Geometry is a method to study 3D geometry through 2D images. It provides insight into structure and metrical properties of spatial objects, processes and principles. According to this, Descriptive Geo...

In this article we describe our research eeorts in coping with a trade-oo that can be often found in the control and optimization of todays business processes. Though centralized control may achieve better results in controlling the system behavior, there are usually social, technical and security constraints on applying centralized control. Distributed control on the other hand may cope with t...

In the last decades we moved from a world in which an enterprise had one central database—rather small for todays’ standards—to a world in which many different—and big—databases must interact and operate, providing the user an integrated and understandable view of the data. Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) is becoming a popular approach to cope with this new scenario. OBDA separates the user f...

Very recently, it was shown that the well known scoreboard as introduced in the CDC 6600 and described in current textbooks runs into deadlocks. However, it is one of the two major scheduling mechanisms used in todays microprocessors. This paper presents a corrected version of the scoreboard and formally proves that mechanism to be correct and deadlock free.

Dependability in todays software systems is hard to achieve. Missing physical boundaries like the laws of nature in other engineering disciplines and a lack of understanding how to control the software runtime behavior to enforce consistency are two major reasons. This paper introduces a novel approach to improving software systems’ dependability by the concept of execution guarantees.

Due to an increase in the demand of context-aware applications, there is a higher requirement for an accurate user location information. Todays mobile devices contain embedded sensors like gyroscope, accelerometer and electronic compass. Researchers are exploiting these sensors to estimate user position and location in different environments. This paper surveys the latest trends of using these ...

Storage Management continues to play a key role in providing a complete solution to todays most challenging computational problems. This paper describes the current market trends and customer requirements driving Cray’s continued commitment to providing an integrated storage management solution. Product directions for the areas of network backup, archive and hierarchical storage management (HSM...

Sheet-of-light range measurement is a commonly used method in todays industrial applications. This paper describes a new way of using an existing image sensor and turns it into a fast programmable sheet-of-light range sensor. The system is capable of measuring up to 4 Mranglels.