Abstract. We argue that the needs of many classes of modern applications, especially those targeted at mobile or wireless computing, demand the services of content-based publish/su...
Colorhasbeen widelyused for handsegmentation. However, many approaches rely on predefined skin color models. It is very difficult to predefine a color model in a mobile applica...
Today’s universal communications increasingly involve mobile and battery-powered devices (e.g. hand-held, laptop) over wired and wireless networks. Energy efficiency, as well as...
Today, distributed object-based computing is closely linked with Java. The Java virtual machine is ported to most current operating systems and provides many services which help d...
Multi-agent systems comprise multiple, deliberative agents embedded in and recreating patterns of interactions. Each agent’s execution consumes considerable storage and calculat...