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NCA
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Providing Hard Real-Time Guarantees in Context-Aware Applications: Challenges and Requirements
Context-aware applications rely on the ability to perceive the state of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we address a class of such applications where real-time guarant...
Malika Boulkenafed, Barbara Hughes, René Me...
PARELEC
2002
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Real-Time Scheduling in Distributed Systems
In this paper, we investigate the worst case performance of Earliest Due Date algorithm when applied to packet scheduling in distributed systems. We assume that the processing ele...
Nguyen Duc Thai
MMM
2005
Springer
185views Multimedia» more  MMM 2005»
15 years 5 months ago
Database Support for Haptic Exploration in Very Large Virtual Environments
The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
STORYTELLING
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Formal Encoding of Drama Ontology
The goal of this research is to lay the foundations for a formal theory , that abstracts from the procedural and interactive aspects involved in the generation of dramatic content....
Rossana Damiano, Vincenzo Lombardo, Antonio Pizzo
CHI
2003
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
Lessons from the lighthouse: collaboration in a shared mixed reality system
Museums attract increasing numbers of online visitors along with their conventional physical visitors. This paper presents a study of a mixed reality system that allows web, virtu...
Barry Brown, Ian MacColl, Matthew Chalmers, Areti ...