Palette re-ordering is a well known and very effective approach for improving the compression of color indexed images. If the spatial distribution of the indexes in the image is s...
Sebastiano Battiato, Francesco Rundo, Filippo Stan...
—Spatial query execution is an essential functionality of a sensor network. Redundancy within a sensor network can be exploited to reduce the communication cost incurred in execu...
— In this paper, we propose a game theoretical approach to tackle the problem of the distributed formation of the uplink tree structure among the relay stations (RSs) and their s...
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
—Superpeer architectures exploit the heterogeneity of nodes in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network by assigning additional responsibilities to higher capacity nodes. In the design of a ...
Pawel Garbacki, Dick H. J. Epema, Maarten van Stee...