In Internet audio applications, delay and delay jitter affect applications' quality of service mostly. Since packet delays are different and changing over time, the receiver ...
Metadata harvesting requires timely propagation of up-to-date information from thousands of Repositories over a wide area network. It is desirable to keep the data as fresh as poss...
Two soft keyboard layouts were evaluated for entry speed using paper mockups and hand timing. Twelve participants used a stylus to tap the well-known “quick brown fox” phrase ...
Abstract. We propose a general methodology based on robust optimization to address the problem of optimally controlling a supply chain subject to stochastic demand in discrete time...
In many database applications, there are opportunities for multiple top-N queries to be evaluated at the same time. Often it is more cost effective to evaluate multiple such queri...