Many structured activities are managed by email. For instance, a consumer purchasing an item from an e-commerce vendor may receive a message confirming the order, a warning of a ...
People routinely rely on physical and electronic systems to remind themselves of details regarding personal and organizational contacts. These systems include rolodexes, directori...
Jonathan Trevor, David M. Hilbert, Daniel Billsus,...
Abstract. The development of real-time distributed applications requires middleware providing both reliability and performance. Middleware must be adaptable to meet application req...
With the rise of distributed e-commerce in recent years, demand for automated negotiation has increased. In turn, this has facilitated a demand for ever more complex algorithms to...
Peter Henderson, Stephen Crouch, Robert John Walte...
MPEG-4 is an important international standard with wide applicability. This paper focuses on MPEG-4’s main profile, video, whose approach allows more efficiency in coding and ...