An adaptation contract describes composition constraints and adaptation requirements among several services which were not initially built to interoperate with each other. The man...
The paper presents an MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS)-based metadata and user profile model used within an enhanced DTV environment for semantic annotation and person...
We consider the setting of a multiprocessor where the speeds of the m processors can be individually scaled. Jobs arrive over time and have varying degrees of parallelizability. A...
To produce quality software and evolve them in an economic and timely fashion, enactable software process models are used for regulating development activities with the support of ...
One very effective method for managing large data sets is aggregation or binning. In this paper we consider two aggregation methods that are tightly coupled with interactive manip...