As multi-cores arrive for mainstream desktop systems, developers must invest the effort to parallelize their applications. We present Parallel Task (short ParaTask), a solution to ...
The upcoming generation of computer hardware poses several new challenges for database developers and engineers. Software in general and database management systems (DBMSs) in par...
We propose a comprehensive theoretical framework to evaluate reliability and energy consumption of distributed source coding (DSC) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) applications. ...
Carlo Fischione, Stefano Tennina, Fortunato Santuc...
With the popularity of "bag of visual terms" representations of images, many text indexing techniques have been applied in large-scale image retrieval systems. However, ...
Xiao Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Heu...
We consider multi-rate peer-to-peer multi-party conferencing applications, where different receivers in the same group can receive videos at different rates using, for example, sc...
Miroslav Ponec, Sudipta Sengupta, Minghua Chen, Ji...