Multicast routing uses a structure, either a tree or a mesh, to connect the receivers to the source, thus saving the bandwidth. How to share the cost among the receivers in a certa...
Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...
For execution of complex biological queries, data integration systems often use several intermediate data sources because the domain coverage of individual sources is limited. Qual...
Software modeling has received a lot a of attention in the last decade and now is an important support for the design process. Actually, the design process is very important to the...
Current consumer electronics devices do not interoperate and are hard to use. Devices use proprietary, device-specific and inflexible protocols. Resources across device classes, s...