The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particu...
Although telepointers are valuable for supporting real-time collaboration, they are rarely seen in commercial groupware applications that run on the Internet. One reason for their...
Jeff Dyck, Carl Gutwin, Sriram Subramanian, Chris ...
In wireless sensor networks, it is critical to restrict the network access only to eligible sensor nodes, while messages from outsiders will not be forwarded in the networks. In t...
Kun Sun, An Liu, Roger Xu, Peng Ning, W. Douglas M...
Although it has been studied for years by the computer vision and machine learning communities, image annotation is still far from practical. In this paper, we propose a novel atte...
Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang 0001, Xirong Li, Wei-Ying...
Supporting uninterrupted services for distributed soft real-time applications is hard in resource-constrained and dynamic environments, where processor or process failures and sys...