—The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) model for Web services based monitoring of remote scientific instruments is being extended and enhanced to provide a capabil...
Douglas du Boulay, Clinton Chee, Kenneth Chiu, Ric...
In this article we present three key ideas which together form a flexible framework for maximizing user-perceived quality under given resources with modern video codecs (H.264). F...
The exponential growth of the web and the extended use of database management systems in widely distributed information systems has brought to the fore the need for seamless interc...
In recent times a new kind of computing system has emerged: a distributed infrastructure composed of multiple physical sites in different administrative domains. This model introd...
Stephen Childs, Marco Emilio Poleggi, Charles Loom...
— With the rapid growth of wireless sensor systems deployment, data quality has become a critical issue to the success of these applications. In this paper, we first raise the d...