Video question answering aims to pinpoint answers in response to user's specified questions. However, most question answering technologies involve in integrating rich specifi...
Whereas multicast transmission in one-to-many communications allows the operator to drastically save network resources, it also makes the routing of the traffic flows more complex ...
In todays IP networks most of the network control and management tasks are performed at the end points. As a result, many important network functions cannot be optimized due to la...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
Fair allocation of available bandwidth to competing flows is a simple form of quality of service (QoS) that can be provided to customers in packet-switched networks. A number of p...