Mobile clients retrieve and update databases at servers. They use transactions in order to ensure the consistency of shared data in the presence of concurrent accesses. Transactio...
IlYoung Chung, Bharat K. Bhargava, Malika Mahoui, ...
The perception of transparent objects from images is known to be a very hard problem in vision. Given a single image, it is difficult to even detect the presence of transparent o...
OpenMP has emerged as a widely accepted standard for writing shared memory programs. Hardware-specific extensions such as data placement are usually needed to improve the scalabi...
Streaming media applications are becoming more popular on the late years, as for example, news transmitted live through the web, music, show, and films. Traditional client/server...
Marisa A. Vasconcelos, Leonardo C. da Rocha, Julia...
Telepointers are an important type of embodiment in real-time distributed groupware. Telepointers can increase the presence of remote participants and can provide considerable awa...