Abstract. We present an approach for modeling and realtime rendering of outdoor scenes, for use in virtual reality applications such as flight simulators and multi-user virtual env...
In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-asyou-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a n...
—In its current art, peer-to-peer streaming solution has been mainly employed in the domain of live event broadcasting. In such a paradigm, users are required to simultaneously p...
Most P2P VoD schemes focused on service architectures and overlays optimization without considering segments rarity and the performance of prefetching strategies. As a result, the...
This paper describes the KomParse system, a natural-language dialog system in the three-dimensional virtual world Twinity. In order to fulfill the various communication demands be...