The objective of image compression is to achieve the minimum possible bit-rate, within certain bounds of computational complexity, and with a tolerable degree of distortion. In very low bit-rate coding it is generally ...

Collision Handling has long been a major bottleneck in physically based animation. As scene complexity increases the problem becomes critical enough to prohibit real-time performance in the animation system. Previous ...

Enforcing solidity of objects within simulations is a major computational overhead. Detecting interactions between bodies is a large part of this overhead. Many researchers have used hybrid collision detection algorithms ...

The current Internet struggles to cope with changing demands. Designed for a static network, the techniques that have evolved to configure devices, assign addresses and handle mobility, have proved inadequate in a mobile ...

Among the reasons for the success Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) has achieved in tackling supervised learning problems, is certainly the capability to give a ranking to any case stored in the database depending on its similarity ...

Ad Hoc networks are an ideal way to form interactions between mobile wireless nodes of emergency services from different domains (i.e. organizations or countries). However, due to the frequent topological and membership ...

Improvements in the optical transmission technology, over the past fifteen years, have substantially facilitated the development and worldwide deployment of the Internet, by reducing the cost of data transport. The exponential ...

How the design of the human computer interface could be varied to accommodate specific cognitive styles is addressed. The area of adaptive versus non-adaptive systems was discussed in Chapter 2. Generally non-adaptive ...

The processing power available in today's commodity parallel hardw are has enabled realism and detail in graphics that has never before been possible. With the advent of the progrannnable Graphics Processor Unit (GPU), the ...

Artificial Intelligence systems have reached a level of sophistication and accuracy which means that they can now be confidently used as decision aids in real world situations. However, although these systems are accurate, ...