With the large and increasing amount of visual information available in digital libraries and the Web, efficient and robust systems for image retrieval are urgently needed. In thi...
The conventional approach for building pervasive environments relies on middleware to integrate different systems. Instead, we have built a system that can deal with these environ...
Francisco J. Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano, Katia L...
In this paper, we introduce the Virtual Paths Routing (VPR) Protocol for ad hoc wireless networks. VPR provides highly dynamic, correct, and efficient paths creation and maintenan...
Modern IT systems serve many different business processes on a shared infrastructure in parallel. The automatic request execution on the numerous interconnected components, hosted...
In this paper, we present techniques for exploiting intermittently available resources in grid infrastructures to support QoS-based multimedia applications on mobile devices. Spec...