Abstract-- We present a perceptual model for hiding a spreadspectrum watermark of variable amplitude and density in an image. The model takes into account the sensitivity and maski...
Software-based active replication is expensive in terms of performance overhead. Multithreading can help improve performance; however, thread scheduling is a source of nondetermin...
Claudio Basile, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K...
Top-N item recommendation is one of the important tasks of recommenders. Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach to building recommender systems which can predict ra...
Many distributed systems can be modeled as network games: a collection of selfish players that communicate in order to maximize their individual utilities. The performance of such ...
Networked multimedia applications, such as videoconferencing, offer great communicative opportunities. Since the financial cost of using such a service increases in line with the q...