Current network technology is bandwidth-rich but latency-poor; thus round-trip delays will dominate access latency for web traffic. We describe four new techniques that reduce the round-trips needed for web accesses. The techniques are based on the paradigm of preprocessing a web page to collect information about links and inline data in the page. Stored Address Binding almost always eliminates...

Although computer graphics hardware has made tremendous advances over the last few years, there are many things which are still not feasible to render in realtime. One of these is the subset of surfaces referred to as ’microgeometry,’ where many small individual pieces combine to create a complex surface. Microgeometry is a problem for typical polygonal rendering systems, the method used in the...

Multi-layered depth images containing color and normal information for subobjects in a hierarchical scene model are precomputed with standard zbuffer hardware for six orthogonal views. These are adaptively selected according to the proximity of the viewpoint, and combined using hardware texture mapping to create “reprojected” output images for new viewpoints. (If a subobject is too close to the...

I. The Empirically Validated PRT Package: Foundational Research on the Development of PRT A. Core Pivotal Area of Motivation 1. Initial Research Identifying Motivation as a Key for Autism Intervention 2. Initial Research Used in the Development of PRT a. Child Choice/ Use of Ritualistic Themes b. Reinforcing Attempts c. Task Variation d. Natural Reinforcers B. Research Leading to the Identifica...

Despite controversial political beginnings, the West Virginia University Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system in Morgantown, WV is now receiving the credit it deserves. With over thirty years of operation and no fatalities nor major injuries, the system continues to be an efficient and reliable example of automated transit. When expansions are considered, however, the price tag is always a shock...

In the past few years, the European Commission has financed several projects to examine how new technologies could improve the sustainability of European cities. These technologies concern new public transportation modes such as guided buses to form high capacity networks similar to light rail but at a lower cost and better flexibility, PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) and cybercars (small urban ve...

The article discusses issues related to the construction of the PRT network simulator and the simulation process: the elements of PRT network structure, their representation in the simulator, the simulation process itself, animation, and automation of the experiments. An example of a simulation environment Feniks is described, elaborated within the framework of the Eco-Mobility project.

Multi-layered depth images containing color and normal information for subobjects in a hierarchical scene model are precomputed with standard zbuffer hardware for six orthogonal views. These are adaptively selected according to the proximity of the viewpoint, and combined using hardware texture mapping to create “reprojected” output images for new viewpoints. (If a subobject is too close to the...

In the last 15 years, research in Computer Science has involved many paradigms in which continuous time appears whether in a pure way or in cooperation with discrete time. In particular, this is evident in subjects concerning Automata and Logic. This issue of FI consists of four papers dedicated to such subjects. The papers will be referred to below as [HR], [S], [PRT], [T] (the initials of the...