This paper presents Contory, a middleware specifically deployed to support provisioning of context information on mobile devices such as smart phones. Contory integrates multiple...
The Constant Bandwidth Server (CBS) is an effective scheduling technique frequently used to handle overruns and implement resource reservation in real-time systems where tasks hav...
The scheme of advance reservations in dynamically provisioned optical networks is novel, and there are no gridbased applications designed to utilize this scheme. We formally defi...
Sumit Naiksatam, Silvia M. Figueira, Stephen A. Ch...
Nicholas Carr’s question “Does IT Matter?”(to the maintenance of competitive advantage) has been applied to many industries but the one that depends on IT almost exclusively...
In this paper, we present a novel approach to keyframe-based tracking, called bi-directional tracking. Given two object templates in the beginning and ending keyframes, the bi-dire...