— Efficient video-on-demand (VoD) is a highly desired service for media and telecom providers. VoD allows subscribers to view any item in a large media catalog nearly-instantane...
This paper presents a new definition of context for contextaware computing based on a model that relies on dynamic queries over structured objects. This new model enables develop...
Kenneth M. Anderson, Frank Allan Hansen, Niels Olo...
Many of the world’s most critical systems are distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems, with missioncritical quality of service (QoS) requirements. However, because of their...
Prakash Manghwani, Joseph P. Loyall, Praveen Kaush...
Abstract. We describe a group membership protocol, called the timewheel group membership protocol, for a timed asynchronous distributed system. This protocol is a part of the timew...
One of the primary goals in discovery science is to understand the human scientific reasoning processes. Despite sporadic success of automated discovery systems, few studies have s...