The widespread adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in many strategic contexts of the information technology society has drawn the attention on the issues regarding ho...
Fabio Mancinelli, Jaap Boender, Roberto Di Cosmo, ...
Abstract – In order to fulfill the functional requirements of multimedia management systems while achieving the efficiency and reliability at the same time, we adopt the compone...
Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Na Zhao, Chengcui Z...
Designers are moving toward chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) to leverage application parallelism for higher performance while keeping design complexity under control. However, to date,...
Philo Juang, Qiang Wu, Li-Shiuan Peh, Margaret Mar...
Abstract. Dependable distributed applications require flexible infrastructure support for controlled redundancy, replication, and recovery of components and services. However, mos...
In the multimedia field, metadata are becoming increasingly important for efficiently cataloguing the abundant flood of information. (Metadata are data on information structure...