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MM
2006
ACM
197views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
16 years 19 days ago
Virtual observers in a mobile surveillance system
Conventional wide-area video surveillance systems use a network of fixed cameras positioned close to locations of interest. We describe an alternative and flexible approach to w...
Stewart Greenhill, Svetha Venkatesh
CONEXT
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Balancing throughput, robustness, and in-order delivery in P2P VoD
Peer-to-peer has emerged in recent years as a promising approach to providing Video-on-Demand streaming. The design space, however, is vast and still not well understood--yet choo...
Bin Fan, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Kons...
MAGS
2010
97views more  MAGS 2010»
15 years 5 months ago
Towards reliable multi-agent systems: An adaptive replication mechanism
Abstract. Distributed cooperative applications (e.g., e-commerce) are now increasingly being designed as a set of autonomous entities, named agents, which interact and coordinate (...
Zahia Guessoum, Jean-Pierre Briot, Nora Faci, Oliv...
TEI
2010
ACM
131views Hardware» more  TEI 2010»
16 years 1 months ago
Toys keeping in touch: technologies for distance play
Collaborative pretend play is significant in the emotional and social development of young children yet traditional remote communication systems do not support this type of intera...
Natalie Freed
AO
2007
144views more  AO 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Social acquisition of ontologies from communication processes
This work introduces a formal framework for the social acquisition of ontologies which are constructed dynamically from overhearing the possibly conflicting symbolic interaction o...
Matthias Nickles