With the proliferation of multimedia data sources on the Internet, we envision an increasing demand for value-added and functionrich multimedia services that transport, process, a...
In this paper, we describe a new approach to the creation of virtual environments, which uses qualitative physics to implement object behaviour. We adopted Qualitative Process The...
Marc Cavazza, Simon Hartley, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Mika...
Database systems as basis for CAD frameworks have to provide data management as well as transaction management facilities meeting the requirements of design applications. One of t...
: Integrated access to distributed data is an important problem faced in scientific and commercial applications. A data integration system provides a unified view for users to subm...
In this paper, we describe recent work in developing a peer-topeer collaborative environment. The study examines various locking mechanisms/policies by adjusting the granularity o...