Abstract. Future-generation distributed multimedia applications are expected to be highly scalable to a wide variety of heterogeneous devices, and highly adaptive across widearea d...
Streaming media from the Internet is a successful application for end-users. With the upcoming success of mobile devices and home networking environments, cooperation among users ...
Periodic broadcast and scheduled multicast have been shown to be very effective in reducing the demand on server bandwidth. While periodic broadcast is better for popular videos, s...
An intelligent annotation-based video data model called Smart VideoText is introduced. It utilizes the conceptual graph knowledge representation formalism to capture the semantic a...
Fotis Kokkoras, Haitao Jiang, Ioannis P. Vlahavas,...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a separable, reusable middleware solution that provides coordinated, end-to-end QoS management over any type of service component, and can use e...
Denise J. Ecklund, Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann, ...
This paper offers a high-level retrospective overview of the GOPI middleware platform which is the outcome of a three year project aimed at the development of generic, configurabl...
We investigate a form of modular neural network for classification with (a) pre-separated input vectors entering its specialist (expert) networks, (b) specialist networks which ar...
A fast and simple algorithm for approximately calculating the principal components (PCs) of a data set and so reducing its dimensionality is described. This Simple Principal Compo...