2.5G and 3G cellular networks are becoming more and more widespread. Therefore, the need for value added services is increasing rapidly. One of the key services that operators see...
Determining similarities among multimedia objects is a fundamental task in many content-based retrieval, analysis, mining, and exploration applications. Among state-of-the-art sim...
This paper presents the results of an empirical study suggesting that, while laughter is a very good indicator of amusement, the kind of laughter (unvoiced laughter vs.voiced laug...
In peer-to-peer (P2P) on-demand streaming applications, multimedia content is divided into segments and peers can seek any segments for viewing at anytime. Since different segment...
Traditional techniques for a distributed web server design rely on manipulation of central resources, such as routers or DNS services, to distribute requests designated for a sing...