Pattern matching is an important operation in functional programs. So far, pattern matching has been investigated in the context of structured terms. This article presents an appr...
Intra-frame mode selection and inter-frame mode selection are new features introduced in the H.264 standard. Intra-frame mode selection dramatically reduces spatial redundancy in ...
Reducing power consumption has become a major challenge in the design and operation of today's computer systems. This chapter describes different techniques addressing this c...
We introduce SPREAD - a new architecture for distributing and maintaining up-to-date Web content that simultaneously employs three different mechanisms: client validation, server ...
—Various sensor types, e.g., temperature, humidity, and acoustic, sense physical phenomena in different ways, and thus, are expected to have different sensing models. Even for th...