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ICMCS
2000
IEEE
102views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2000»
14 years 7 days ago
Trader's Quality of Service Specifications and Effects on System Performance for Video-on-Demand
In this paper we present a detailed review on the Trader’s Quality of Service (QoS) Specifications and the Effects on System Performance for Video-on-Demand Multimedia (MM) Appl...
Edward Babulak
SAC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed context management in a mobility and adaptation enabling middleware (MADAM)
CT As computing devices are getting smaller, we tend to bring them everywhere. Consequently the operating conditions of the devices are constantly changing (e.g. changing user requ...
Marius Mikalsen, Nearchos Paspallis, Jacqueline Fl...
MIDDLEWARE
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Kevlar: A Flexible Infrastructure for Wide-Area Collaborative Applications
Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptive middleware for context-aware applications in smart-homes
We propose an adaptive middleware design for context-aware applications that abstracts the applications from the sensors that provide context. Further, we use application-specifi...
Markus C. Huebscher, Julie A. McCann
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Modelling job allocation where service duration is unknown
In this paper a novel job allocation scheme in distributed systems (TAG) is modelled using the Markovian process algebra PEPA. This scheme requires no prior knowledge of job size ...
Nigel Thomas