: The ability of a new technology to reuse legacy systems is very important for its economic success. This paper presents a method for integrating legacy systems within distributed...
This work presents a dedicated hardware design for the Forward Quantization Module (Q module) of the H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard, using optimized multipliers. The goal of this...
Felipe Sampaio, Daniel Palomino, Robson Dornelles,...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Context-aware service platforms use context information to customize their services to the current users’ situation. Due to technical limitations in sensors and context reasonin...
Ricardo Neisse, Maarten Wegdam, Marten van Sindere...
GRID technology, emerging in the late nineties, has evolved from a metacomputing architecture towards a pervasive computation and information utility. However, the architectural de...