Advanced applications in fields like electronic publishing and telecooperation face the problem of handling multimedia information. Conventional database systems do not offer adeq...
Multimedia applications usually involve a large number of multimedia objects (texts, images, sounds etc.). Spatial and temporal relationships among these objects should be efficie...
In training and gaming systems, distributed multimedia are often used, in which the basic content elements must be conveyed or presented in a synchronized order at synchronized mom...
AdvanceobjectorientedcomputingplatformsuchastheCommonObjectRequestBrokerArchitecture (CORBA) provides a conducive and standardized framework for the development of distributed appl...
Hung Keng Pung, Wynne Hsu, Bhawani S. Sapkota, Law...
We consider the problem of scheduling tasks with unpredictable service times on distinct processing nodes so as to meet a real-time deadline, given that all communication among no...