Abstract. Engineering adaptable Web Information Systems (WIS) requires systematic design models and specification frameworks. A complete model-driven methodology like Hera disting...
Adaptive query processing schemes attempt to reoptimize query plans during the course of query execution. A variety of techniques for adaptive query processing have been proposed,...
Relevance feedback has been an indispensable component for multimedia retrieval systems. In this paper, we present an adaptive pattern discovery method, which addresses relevance ...
— Dynamic behavior of the Internet’s transmission resources makes it difficult to provide perceptually good quality of streaming video. MPEG-4 Fine-Grained Scalable coding is ...
When a program uses Software Transactional Memory (STM) to synchronize accesses to shared memory, the performance often depends on which STM implementation is used. Implementation...