Abstract: There is little understanding of how distributed writing groups manage their collaboration and what kinds of support are most useful. The paper presents three case studie...
The Hadoop filesystem is a large scale distributed filesystem used to manage and quickly process extremely large data sets. We want to utilize Hadoop to assist with dataintensive ...
The concept of the Virtual Software Corporation (VSC) has recently become a practical reality as a result of advances in communication and distributed technologies. However, there...
The compression of still images by means of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), adopted in the JPEG-2000 and MPEG-4 standards, is becoming more and more widespread because it yie...
The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...