Abstract: To enable efficient access to multimedia content, the media data has to be augmented by semantic metadata and functionality. The semantic representation has to be integra...
Parallel programming continues to be difficult and error-prone, whether starting from specifications or from an existing sequential program. This paper presents (1) a methodology f...
Abstract. We address the problem of developing efficient cache coherence protocols implementing distributed shared memory (DSM) using message passing. A serious drawback of traditi...
Abstract. The goal of ontology-based management is to improve the manageability of network resources through the application of formal ontologies. Prior research work has studied t...
This paper describes an approach for application specific conflict prevention based on model-driven refinement of policies prior to deployment. Central to the approach is an algori...