This paper presents a cost-effective peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture for large-scale on-demand media streaming, named BitVampire. BitVampire's primary design goal is to aggreg...
We consider the problem of minimizing staffing costs in an inbound call center, while maintaining an acceptable level of service in multiple time periods. The problem is complicat...
—This paper presents a novel hybrid method for content based visual information retrieval (CBIR) that combines shape analysis of objects in image with their automatic indexing by...
As a first step toward a notion of quantum data structures, we introduce a typing system for reflecting entanglement and separability. This is presented in the context of classi...
Even with todays hardware improvements, performance problems are still common in many software systems. An approach to tackle this problem for component-based software architectur...