Video-on-demand (VOD) is a very promising multimedia application of the near future. In order for such a service to be commercially viable, efficient storage and retrieval schemes...
Due to their high volume, general-purpose processors, and now chip multiprocessors (CMPs), are much more cost effective than ASICs, but lag significantly in terms of performance a...
Balancing the needs of information distributors and their audiences has grown harder in the age of the Internet. While the demand for attention continues to increase rapidly with ...
Robert E. Kraut, James Morris, Rahul Telang, Darri...
One of the distinctive features of sites on the Internet is their ability to gather enormous amounts of information regarding their visitors, and use this information to enhance a...
The use of modern programming paradigms and technologies, such as object orientation, inheritance, polymorphism and aspect orientation, facilitate a number of important software e...
Michael Desmond, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Chris Ex...