MPEG-4 Fine Granularity Scalability (FGS) provides bandwidth adaptation and error resilience features for streaming applications. In this paper. by estimating the required computa...
Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware facilitates loosely coupled cooperation and fits well the needs of spontaneous, ad-hoc interaction. However, newly started mobile applicati...
Mariano Cilia, Ludger Fiege, C. Haul, Andreas Zeid...
In this paper, we present TOTA (“Tuples On The Air”), a novel middleware to coordinate the movements of a large number of autonomous components (i.e. agents) in a ubiquitous co...
Current data management solutions are largely optimized for intra-enterprise, client-server applications. They depend on predictability, predefined structure, and universal admini...
Brian F. Cooper, Neal Sample, Michael J. Franklin,...
d by an application in thinwire visualization, we study an abstract on-line scheduling problem where the size of each requested service can be scaled down by the scheduler. Thus o...