: A distributed system is scalable if the rate at which it completes its computation and communication tasks does not depend on its size. As an example, the scalability of a peer-t...
—The adoption of wireless vehicular communication technologies would strongly depend on the technologies transmission reliability, required by QoS demanding traffic safety applic...
—Context-aware adaptive systems aim at automatically personalizing the user’s environment depending on the user’s situation, and hence, minimizing user interaction with the s...
We present a new system, called Retimm, for searching databases made of documents containing images and text. Images are indexed by colour and texture distributions.. Colour and t...
Abstract. The development of network-aware applications, i.e. applications that dynamically adapt to network conditions, has had some success in the domain of multimedia applicatio...