A challenging question is how XML can be used to support distributed databases. This leads to the problem of how to obtain a suitable, cost-efficient distribution design for XML do...
In cellular networks, a frame size is generally made small to reduce the impact of errors. Thus, a segment of transport layer is splitted into multiple frames before transmission. ...
This paper investigates the issues in polyphonic popular song retrieval. The problems that we consider include singing voice extraction, melodic curve representation, and database...
In this paper, we discuss one of our experiments using the coordination language MANIFOLD to restructure an existing sequential numerical application into a concurrent application...
The general aim of our work is to provide tools, methods and models to adaptive multi-agent systems designers. These systems consist in several interacting agents and have to optim...