New devices gaining access to the Internet need to obtain multimedia content adapted to their limited capacities. Scalable formats allow to retrieve different versions of a single...
A number of researchers have become interested in the design of global-scale networked systems and applications. Our thesis here is that the database community's principles a...
1 Feature Oriented Programming (FOP) is an emerging paradigm for application synthesis, analysis, and optimization. A target application is specified declaratively as a set of feat...
As CMOS technology scales deeper into the nanometer regime, factors such as leakage power and chip temperature emerge as critically important concerns for VLSI design. This paper,...
As internet technology develops, we transfer more and more physical activities into cyberspace. On the other hand, mobile technology frees the location of cyberspace participants,...