: The work of corporate finance professionals is information intensive. In spite of that the practices and motivations of their information preferences have been researched very li...
Many industrial applications with real-time demands are composed of mixed sets of tasks with a variety of requirements. These can be in the form of standard timing constraints, su...
In-vehicle navigation has changed substantially in recent years, due to the advent of computer generated maps and directions. However, these maps are still problematic, due to a m...
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems aim to provide users with highly exhaustive and highly specific results. To interact with XML-IR systems, users must express both their ...
The H.264 adopts various block types and multiple reference frames for motion compensation. For transcoding a video sequence from the H.263 format to the H.264 format, it is benef...