Existing distributed middleware technologies and Enterprise Application frameworks lack in support to service flexibility from both the developer’s and user’s point of view. ...
Domenico Cotroneo, Cristiano di Flora, Stefano Rus...
Preference elicitation (PE) is an important component of interactive decision support systems that aim to make optimal recommendations to users by actively querying their preferen...
In this paper, we study the problem of on demand minimum length packet scheduling in single-hop multichannel systems. Examples of these systems are those centered around switching...
Interframe compression techniques, such as those used in MPEG video, give rise to a coded bit stream where picture sizes di er by a factor of 10 or more. As a result, bu ering is ...
Multimedia applications have unique characteristics that can be leveraged to design energy-efficient loss recovery mechanisms. Given their loss tolerance and strict timing requirem...