In implementations of non-standard database systems, large objects are often embedded within an aggregate of different types, i.e. a tuple. For a given size and access probabilit...
With the success of Mars Pathfinder's Sojourner rover, a new era of planetary exploration has opened, with demand for highly capable mobile robots. These robots must be able ...
Parallel load balancing is studied for problems with certain bisection properties. A class of problems has bisectors if every problem p of weight wp in the class can be subdivided...
A vector enhancement of Said and Pearlman's Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) methodology, named VSPIHT, has recently been proposed for embedded wavelet image co...
Network applications require a certain level of network performance for their proper operation. These individual guarantees can be provided if su cient amounts of network resource...