In wireless ad hoc networks, autonomous nodes are reluctant to forward others' packets because of the nodes' limited energy. However, such selfishness and noncooperation ...
Multiresolution shape representation is a very effective way to decompose surface geometry into several levels of detail. Geometric modeling with such representations enables flex...
We present a simple, efficient, and secure multicast protocol with copyright protection in an open and insecure network environment. There is a wide variety of multimedia applicat...
Supporting awareness of others is an idea that holds promise for improving the usability of real-time distributed groupware. However, there is little principled information availa...
This paper presents a brief overview of data management using the Extensible Markup Language (XML). It presents the basics of XML and the DTDs used to constrain XML data, and desc...