International recommendations for subjective video quality assessment (e.g., ITU-R BT.500-11) include specifications for how to perform many different types of subjective tests. I...
Object-based checkpoints are consistent in the object-based system but may be inconsistent according to the traditional message-based definition. We present a protocol for taking ...
The CORBA Object Group Service (OGS) is a new CORBA service that provides support for fault-tolerance through the replication of CORBA objects. In this paper, we present several o...
Data Warehouse (DWH) systems allow to analyze business objects relevant to an enterprise organization (e.g., orders or customers). Analysts are interested in the states of these bu...
—Searching for objects is a fundamental problem for popular peer-to-peer file-sharing networks that contribute to much of the traffic on today’s Internet. While existing prot...