Service personalization is an important goal for any smart environment. Comfort systems may be adjusted in an automatic way when a given user is present, and multimedia devices may...
This paper presents the semantic pathfinder architecture for generic indexing of multimedia archives. The semantic pathfinder extracts semantic concepts from video by exploring dif...
As high-level models in C and SystemC are increasingly used for verification and even design (through high-level synthesis) of electronic systems, there is a growing need for com...
—This paper studies the problem of allocating network capacity through periodic auctions. Motivated primarily by a service overlay architecture, we impose the following condition...
The variety and heterogeneity of legacy systems at the application level have contributed to the complexity of interoperability provision among different application domains. In t...