True VoD systems provide interactive on-demand video service by allocating each client a dedicated stream. Such a scheme is inefficient when the system has a large number of users...
Bahjat Qazzaz, Remo Suppi, Fernando Cores, Ana Rip...
The acceleration of rhythm of everyday life requires efficiency and flexibility in daily routines. The real expectations and needs of people concerning intelligent home devices sh...
"Human computation" is a recent approach that extracts information from large numbers of Web users. reCAPTCHA is a human computation project that improves the process of...
Typical web-database systems receive read-only queries, that generate dynamic web pages as a response, and writeonly updates, that keep information up-to-date. Users expect short ...
Automated software customization is drawing increasing attention as a means to help users deal with the scope, complexity, potential intrusiveness, and ever-changing nature of mod...