— an efficient rate-distortion (R-D) optimal method for transcoding hierarchical B-pictures is proposed in this paper. A new R-D model is presented for fast transcoding hierarchi...
Global competition has given rise to Logistic and Production Systems (LPSs), that are distributed manufacturing systems integrating international logistics and information technol...
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Maria Pia Fanti, Agostino Marc...
This paper presents a design and optimization technique for the Multiple Restricted Multiplication problem [1]. This refers to a situation where a single variable is multiplied by...
Nalin Sidahao, George A. Constantinides, Peter Y. ...
Distributed Genetic Algorithms (DGAs) designed for the Internet have to take its high communication cost into consideration. For island model GAs, the migration topology has a maj...
As the popularity of XML keeps growing rapidly, XML compliant structured document management becomes an interesting and compelling research area. Query optimization for structured...