Distributed information systems for decision-support, logistics, and e-commerce involve coordination of autonomous information resources and clients according to specific domain in...
Virtual spaces based on the metaphor of "shared network places" are becoming a well accepted implementation approach for multiuser, multimedia, distributed cooperative w...
In the context of distributed multimedia applications involving multicast to a large number of users, a single quality of service level may not be appropriate for all participants....
: The design of adaptive video compression algorithms to support multimedia applications that can adapt to changing network conditions is currently being the subject of intense stu...
Persistent programming languages manage volatile memory as a cache for stable storage, imposing a read barrier on operations that access the cache, and a write barrier on updates ...
Antony L. Hosking, Nathaniel Nystrom, Quintin I. C...