: Because digital libraries are expensive to create and maintain, Internet analogs of public libraries--reliable, quality, community services--have only recently begun to appear. A...
Ian H. Witten, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Sally Jo C...
Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with internet users. However, VoD is costly due to the load placed on video servers. Peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques are an approach to...
Bin Cheng, Xiuzheng Liu, Zheng Zhang, Hai Jin, Lex...
The radio frequency spectrum is a naturally limited resource of extraordinary value, as the key to the provision of important communication and information services. Traditionally,...
Virgilio Rodriguez, Klaus Moessner, Rahim Tafazoll...
This paper presents results from twenty-one semi-structured interviews with museum information professionals (MIPs) who were asked about their experiences working with information...
Excessive buffer requirement to handle continuous-media playbacks is an impediment to costeffective provisioning for on-line video retrieval. Given the skewed distribution of video...