We present a quality management method for multimedia applications. The method takes as input an application software composed of actions. The execution times of actions are unkno...
Jacques Combaz, Jean-Claude Fernandez, Joseph Sifa...
Overlays have been proposed as a means to improve application performance in many areas, including multimedia streaming and content distribution. Some overlays use parallel transm...
Lili Wang, Jim Griffioen, Kenneth L. Calvert, Sher...
GRID technology, emerging in the late nineties, has evolved from a metacomputing architecture towards a pervasive computation and information utility. However, the architectural de...
Over the past years, the computing industry has started various initiatives announced to increase computer security by means of new hardware architectures. The most notable effort...
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...