Multimedia database systems (MMDBSs) have to be capable to handle efficiently time-dependent and timeindependent data, and to support Quality-of-Service (QoS). To support continuo...
Group Technology (GT) is a useful way of increasing the productivity for manufacturing high quality products and improving the flexibility of manufacturing systems. Cell formation...
This paper presents a set of architectures for the composition of ubiquitous computing applications. It describes research that is being carried out in "extrovert-Gadgets&quo...
Abstract—In recent years, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming systems experienced tremendous growth and became one of the largest bandwidth consumer on Internet. PPLive, one of the most...
The Java programming language and environment is stimulating new research activities in many areas of computing, not the least of which is parallel computing. Parallel techniques ...