This paper addresses the problem of stochastic task execution time estimation agnostic to the process distributions. The proposed method is orthogonal to the application structure ...
Ten years ago, I introduced the notion of user interface plasticity to denote the capacity of user interfaces to adapt, or to be adapted, to the context of use while preserving us...
The MPEG-4 standard specifies a set of low-level animation parameters for body animation, but does not provide any high-level functionality for the control of avatars or embodied...
We present NeST, a flexible software-only storage appliance designed to meet the storage needs of the Grid. NeST has three key features that make it well-suited for deployment in...
John Bent, Venkateshwaran Venkataramani, Nick LeRo...
Short vector SIMD instructions on recent microprocessors, such as SSE on Pentium III and 4, speed up code but are a major challenge to software developers. We present a compiler t...