: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
In this paper we describe a hybrid sender and receiver-based adaptation scheme for multicast transmission of multimedia data using layered encoding, which we call SRAMT-LE (Sender-...
In order to show that the parallel co-evolution of di erent heuristic methods may lead to an e cient search strategy, we have hybridized three heuristic agents of complementary beh...
We present a method for automatically rendering pen-and-ink illustrations of trees. A given 3-d tree model is illustrated by the tree and a visual representation of the foliage us...
Reconfigurable architectures enable the hardware function to be implemented by the user and, due to its characteristics, have been used in many areas, including Bioinformatics. One...