Many black box optimization algorithms have sufcient exibility to allow them to adapt to the varying circumstances they encounter. These capabilities are of two primary sorts: 1) ...
This paper considers the problem of adapting the BitTorrent protocol for on-demand streaming. BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that efficiently accommodat...
— This paper presents practical design of a smart antenna system based on direction-of-arrival estimation and adaptive beamforming. Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is based...
Raed M. Shubair, Mahmoud Al-Qutayri, Jassim M. Sam...
In this paper we present our approach towards a modularized database management system (DBMS) whose components can be adapted at runtime and show the modularization of a DBMS bene...
— Organic Computing (OC) and other research initiatives like Autonomic Computing or Proactive Computing have developed the idea of systems that possess life-like properties, that...