We present a trace-driven simulator that evaluates the performance of backup algorithms. We use this simulator to compare the performance of the commonly-used level scheme (our na...
This paper describes a new architecture for device drivers for tape drives attached to UNIX-like systems. The design goals are presented, some current architectures are measured a...
With the increase of multimedia contents in the WWW, multimodal presentation using interactive life-like agents is attractive and becoming important. However, it is not easy for m...
More than a decade after its invention, Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing finally seems to spark many research activities world wide. This article reviews the ideas b...
—With the proliferation of online multimedia content, the popularity of multimedia streaming technology, and the establishment of MPEG video coding standards, it is important to ...
In this paper, we present fast algorithms to reduce the computations of block matching algorithms for motion estimation in video coding. Nobel Successive Elimination Algorithms fo...