We think that Massively Multi-user Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) will soon evolve into Online Societies of political and economic interest. Studying them will require a metho...
A scalable object location service can enable users to search for various objects in an environment where many small, networked devices are attached to objects. We investigate two...
The two-layered distributed clustered server architecture consisting of a control server and a group of storage servers has been widely used to support multimedia file systems. Wi...
Seung-Ho Park, Si-Yong Park, Gwang Moon Kim, Ki-Do...
In this paper we examine the problem of balancing load in a large-scale distributed system when information about server loads may be stale. It is well known that sending each req...
A vector enhancement of Said and Pearlman's Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) methodology, named VSPIHT, has recently been proposed for embedded wavelet image co...