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Uses three main notions in the search of improvements in various areas of computer graphics: Artificial Intelligence, Viewpoint Complexity and Human Intelligence.
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This book presents scheduling models for parallel processing, problems defined on the grounds of certain scheduling models, and algorithms solving the scheduling problems. The book also provides help
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