Designing applications with timeliness requirements in environments of uncertain synchrony is known to be a difficult problem. In this paper, we follow the perspective of timing ...
For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the back-end, with system...
Giacomo Piccinelli, Wolfgang Emmerich, Christian Z...
Traditional Computer-Aided Teaching and Learning (CAT/CAL) environments in multimedia-based teleeducation do not empower knowledge consumers (trainees, students etc.) to practice ...
Development of the past decade have confirmed that ATM technology has the potential of becoming the transport mechanism in many multimedia networks where high-speed traffic and Qu...
Clusters of commodity computers are currently being used to provide the scalability required by severalpopular Internet services. In this paper we evaluate an efficient cluster-b...
Enrique V. Carrera, Srinath Rao, Liviu Iftode, Ric...