Long running applications often need to adapt due to changing requirements or changing environment. Typically, such adaptation is performed by dynamically adding or removing compo...
Video-on-demand (VOD) is a very promising multimedia application of the near future. In order for such a service to be commercially viable, efficient storage and retrieval schemes...
This paper focuses on time-based declarative languages. The use of declarative languages has the advantage of their simplicity and gh-level abstraction, usually requiring few or n...
Unstructured peer-to-peer infrastructure has been widely employed to support large-scale distributed applications. Many of these applications, such as locationbased services and m...
Combining multiple classifiers is of particular interest in multimedia applications. Each modality in multimedia data can be analyzed individually, and combining multiple pieces of...