Multimedia databases deal with storage and retrieval of complex descriptors of image contents, called features. Traditional techniques consider features as “black boxes,” ofte...
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...
: Deadline handling is a fundamental part of real-time computing but has been practiced in ad hoc forms for decades. A general framework for systematic deadline handling in real-ti...
Quality of service (QoS) is one of the key features for new Internet-based multimedia and other applications. Meanwhile, energy remains as a big concern for systems that perform s...
The mobility of terminals and users is a crucial issue in the open global system represented by the Internet. Supporting terminal and user mobility requires a middleware infrastru...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...