To reduce deployment and maintenance costs companies often decide to outsource parts of RFID infrastructure to an external application service provider. In scenarios where outsour...
Area lights add tremendous realism, but rendering them interactively proves challenging. Integrating visibility is costly, even with current shadowing techniques, and existing met...
Realizing the Semantic Web involves creating ontologies, a tedious and costly challenge. Reuse can reduce the cost of ontology engineering. Semantic Web ontologies can provide use...
Deryle W. Lonsdale, David W. Embley, Yihong Ding, ...
A Content Distribution Network (CDN) is an overlay network where servers replicate contents and distribute client's requests with the aim at reducing delay, server load and n...
In this paper, we examine a multi-period capacity expansion problem for a local access telecommunications network with a tree topology. Capacity expansion is realized through the ...
Michel Gendreau, Jean-Yves Potvin, Ali Smires, Pat...