Recent theoretical and simulation-based studies have confirmed the tremendous benefit of peer-to-peer (P2P) communication at reducing the cost of running a VoD service. To date,...
Many distributed multimedia applications have the ability to adapt to uctuations in the network conditions. By adjusting temporal and spatial quality to available bandwidth, or man...
Modern scientific experiments can generate large amounts of data, which may be replicated and distributed across multiple resources to improve application performance and fault to...
Most real-world database applications manage temporal data, i.e., data with associated time references that capture a temporal aspect of the data, typically either when the data i...
Abstract. A major challenge of Ambient Intelligence lies in building middleware that can ease service implementation through allowing the application developer to emphasize only th...