Interesting slides about decal rendering and more: http://dice.se/publications/title-shadows-decals-d3d10-techniques-from-frostbite/

Stuff-stuff-stuff, new stuff.

As I didn´t find it in the list, here is THE article about premultiplied alpha: https://developer.nvidia.com/content/alpha-blending-pre-or-not-pre

It's actually there.

Another paper which is probably there but I couldn´t find...:
https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs44...s-10-11-oit.pdf
About order independent alpha blending in dx11 and here is a post about implementing something like it in OpenGL: http://blog.icare3d.org/2010/07/opengl-40-abuffer-v20-linked-lists-of.html
One could probably get such an approach working for DirectX 9 as well, but of course with lots of overhead, but it could still be a solution for some cases as it could still perform better than doing the whole sorting on the CPU.

A very nice article on clustered shading: http://www.humus.name/Articles/PracticalClusteredShading.pdf

Büg Update

Thank you very much, the new AO papers are very interesting!

Improve batching using texture atlases
http://http.download.nvidia.com/developer/NVTextureSuite/Atlas_Tools/Texture_Atlas_Whitepaper.pdf

@oliver2s: have you used it? it sounds practical to avoid mipmap border blendings of compound textures...