MPEG-4 video consists of various video objects, rather than frames, allowing a true interactivity and manipulation of separate arbitrary shape object. Soware-based encoding of MPE...
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
Information workers are often involved in multiple tasks and activities that they must perform in parallel or in rapid succession. In consequence, task management itself becomes y...
Symmetric Multiprocessors (SMPs), combined with modern interconnection technologies are commonly used to build cost-effective compute clusters. However, contention among processor...
While a grid represents a computing infrastructure for cross domain sharing of computational resources, the cyberinfrastructure, proposed by the US NSF Blue – Ribbon advisory pa...
Jie Yin, Junwei Cao, Yuexuan Wang, Lianchen Liu, C...