Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
Open distributed systems are typically composed by an unknown number of processes running in heterogeneous hosts. Their communication often requires tolerance to temporary disconn...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Joni da Sil...
In this paper, we propose a framework for QualityDriven Delivery (QDD) in distributed multimedia environments. Quality-driven delivery refers to the capacity of a system to delive...
We present a distributed vision-based surveillance system. The system acquires and processes grey level images through one or multiple Camera Units monitoring certain area(s) via ...
Xiaojing Yuan, Zehang Sun, Yaakov L. Varol, George...
: This work investigates the integration of heterogeneous resources, such as data and programs, in a fully distributed peer-to-peer mediation architecture. The challenge in making ...