Modern systems that execute in ubiquitous environments must be adaptive in order to maintain an acceptable quality of service. As in traditional distributed systems, faults in such systems are likely to propagate across ...

On-demand multimedia streaming applications allow users to select and view content at a time of their choosing and to control the playback of this content. This level of control typically requires that each user receives ...

Volume data is widely used in scientific and medical research, and volume visualization techniques aim to provide effective and flexible methods for analyzing and exploring complex structures in such data. However, obtaining ...

As Internet use has become globally pervasive, the literature suggests that national culture is having an impact on online community communication practices. The importance of researching national culture in these spaces ...

Privacy of data transmitted over public networks has attracted much attention over recent years. Studies show that attacks based on traffic analysis enable malicious users to extract useful information about communications ...

Following the development of formalisms based on data and behavioural aspects of the system, there are a number of attempts in which these two formalisms are mixed together to get benefit of both paradigms. Circus being a ...

SIMD extensions to the instruction sets of general purpose processors have become widespread, and SIMD width and the capabilities provided by the hardware are steadily increasing with newer processor generations. This ...

Agents frequently coordinate their behaviour and collaborate to achieve a shared goal, share constrained resources, or accomplish a complex task that they cannot do alone. Forming an effective collaboration community in ...