Video on Demand (VoD) services are very appealing these days. In this work, we discuss four distinct alternatives for the architecture of a VoD server and compare their performanc...
Daniela Alvim Seabra dos Santos, Alex Borges Vieir...
—Understanding the communication behavior and network resource usage of parallel applications is critical to achieving high performance and scalability on systems with tens of th...
Ron Brightwell, Kevin T. Pedretti, Kurt B. Ferreir...
In this paper we describe a paradigm for contentfocused matchmaking, based on a recently proposed model for constraint acquisition-and-satisfaction. Matchmaking agents are conceiv...
We develop a methodology for evaluating a decision strategy generated by a stochastic optimization model. The methodology is based on a pilot study in which we estimate the distri...
Robert Rush, John M. Mulvey, John E. Mitchell, Tho...
The Dual Smart Drive is a specially designed nonlinear actuator intended for use in climbing and walking legged robots. It features a continuously changing transmission ratio and d...