To allow for an efficient usage of a device in pervasive computing environments, reliable and yet convenient user access is an important requirement. The problem becomes more comp...
As RFID tags are increasingly attached to everyday items, it quickly becomes impractical to collect data from every tag in order to extract useful information. In this paper, we c...
In terms of electronic collaboration, the value chains of the retail and consumer goods industries can be ranked among the most advanced. Recent studies have underlined the import...
Networks of thousands of sensors present a feasible and economic solution to some of our most challenging problems, such as real-time traffic modeling, military sensing and trackin...
— This paper presents a novel theoretical framework for end-to-end video quality prediction of MPEG-based video sequences. The proposed framework encloses two discrete models: i)...