The Web so far has been incredibly successful at delivering information to human users. So successful actually, that there is now an urgent need to go beyond a browsing human and ...
A distributed multimedia information system allows users to access data of different modalities, from different data sources, ranked by various combinationsof criteria. In [6], Fa...
Edward L. Wimmers, Laura M. Haas, Mary Tork Roth, ...
Many medium-access control (MAC) protocols for wireless networks proposed or implemented to date are based on collisionavoidance handshakes between sender and receiver. In the vas...
This paper describes a variant of the actor model suited to the development of multimedia systems. The actor model centers on non-overkilling concurrency and customizable constrai...
Virtual spaces based on the metaphor of "shared network places" are becoming a well accepted implementation approach for multiuser, multimedia, distributed cooperative w...