Abstract. We address the challenge of adaptation in open systems. Open systems are characterized by interactions among autonomous and heterogeneous participants. In such systems, e...
Fabiano Dalpiaz, Amit K. Chopra, Paolo Giorgini, J...
The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm seems to be a promising solution for the design and development of distributed value-added services. However, mobility has added complexity to the d...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Gianluca Tonti...
The increasing use of wireless networks has necessitated the development of a wireless networking infrastructure that supports quality of service (QoS) for multimedia communicatio...
Husni Fahmi, Mudassir Latif, Basit Shafiq, Raymond...
—In this paper, we address the key problem in real-time video coding, the rate-distortion (R-D) tradeoff. As most video coding applications employ color images, we analyze the R-...
Prior to the access to decentralized resources like web services and shared files in peer-to-peer networks, the user needs to be provided with accurate information about these res...