The mechanisms and design principles needed for achieving optimized handoff for mobile Internet services are poorly understood and need better analysis. This paper contributes to ...
— Multiple description coding (MDC) has emerged as a powerful technique for reliable real-time communications over lossy packet networks. In its basic form, it involves encoding ...
The goal of automatic image annotation is to automatically generate annotations for images to describe their content. In the past, statistical machine translation models have been...
Space constrained optimization problems arise in a multitude of important applications such as data warehouses and pervasive computing. A typical instance of such problems is to s...
Themistoklis Palpanas, Nick Koudas, Alberto O. Men...
The growth and operation of all living beings are directed by the interpretation, in each of their cells, of a chemical program, the DNA string or genome. This process is the sour...