—Video-on-Demand (VoD) services have attracted a lot of attentions in recent years. Measurement studies show that VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) operations, such as pause, rewind,...
Aiming at detecting secret information hidden in a given image using steganographic tools, steganalysis has been of interest since the end of 1990’s. In particular, universal ste...
Abstract. The study of natural image statistics considers the statistical properties of large collections of images from natural scenes, and has applications in image processing, c...
In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
Abstract. Current trends in software development show a move towards supporting autonomous components (agents). The accurate timing of interactions between such components is growi...