Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
To be able to enlarge a digital image from a single frame preserving the perceptive cues is a relevant research issue. The best algorithms take into account the presence of edges ...
Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Gallo, Filippo Stanc...
The incorporation of context-awareness capabilities into pervasive applications allows them to leverage contextual information to provide additional services while maintaining an ...
Zhimin Wang, Sebastian G. Elbaum, David S. Rosenbl...
The H.264/ACV standard provides significant improvements in performance over earlier video coding standards at the cost of increased complexity. Our challenge is to determine H.26...
Rahul Vanam, Eve A. Riskin, Sheila S. Hemami, Rich...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...