It is becoming increasingly important for applications to protect sensitive data. With current techniques, the programmer bears the burden of ensuring that the application’s beh...
—The WebInVivo project aims at providing automated support for clinical research on neglected diseases. It includes mechanisms for (a) sharing and reusing clinical trial assets, ...
Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo, Olga Nabuco, Marco...
—We present a middleware platform for assembling pervasive applications that demand fault-tolerance and adaptivity in distributed, dynamic environments. Unlike typical adaptive m...
Hubert Pham, Justin Mazzola Paluska, Umar Saif, Ch...
—Current architectures for systems integration provide means for forming agile business processes by manually or dynamically configuring the components. However, a major challeng...
In this article, we investigate efficient transmission of Object-based MPEG-4 video over IP networks with QoS management capabilities. MPEG-4 Audio Visual Objects (AVOs) are class...