Browsing by Subject "Multimedia systems"
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Asynchronous timed multimedia environments based on the coordination paradigm
(2003)This paper combines work done in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia Systems and Coordination Programming to derive a framework for Distributed Multimedia Systems based on asynchronous timed computations ...
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Cultural journeys in the information society
(IEEE, 2000)This paper describes the Cultural Journeys in the Information Society (CJIS) project. CJIS project is an INCO project (973324) funded by the ECC and its aims to address the problem of electronic information roads at various ...
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Demo: A programming cloud of smartphones
(2012)In this demonstration we present SmartLab 1, an exciting experimental testbed of approximately 40+ real Android Smartphones, plus emulated devices, deployed at the Department of Computer Science building at the University ...
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Demonstration abstract: Sensor mockup experiments with SmartLab
(IEEE Computer Society, 2014)In this demonstration paper we present SmartLab1, an architecture for managing a cluster of both Android Real Devices (ARDs) and Android Virtual Devices (AVDs) via an intuitive web-based interface. Our architecture consists ...
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Design space navigation for neighboring power-performance efficient microprocessor configurations
(2005)Microprocessor design is a considerably complex task. First, microprocessors include many resources that may be configured in different ways. This leads to a time consuming multi-objective optimization problem. Second, ...
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Distributed middleware architectures for scalable media services
(2007)The fusion of Multimedia and Internet technology has introduced an ever-increasing demand for large-scale reliable media services. This exposes the scalability limitations of current middleware architectures, as they ...
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The e-Learning Movement as a Process of Quality Improvement in Higher Education
(2005)Quality in education has been recognized as an issue that should guide our efforts for improvement of teaching and learning processes. e-learning is the latest attempt to take advantage of developments in technology to ...
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The Electronic Road: Personalized Content Browsing
(2003)The effectiveness of a content browsing system, based on semantic content analysis, user profiling, and adaptation, is discussed. The various aspects of electronic road are also described. An user's navigation path through ...
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An enhanced radio resource allocation approach for efficient MBMS service provision in UTRAN
(2008)As currently specified by 3GPP, MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) content can be provided in a cell by either Point-to-Point (P-t-P) or Point-to-Multipoint (P-t-M) transmission mode, but not both at the same ...
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Enhanced UMTS simulation-based planning in office scenarios
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2006)Enhanced UMTS traffic characterisation parameters have been addressed for the offices scenario. By using a system level simulator, results concerning QoS measures as packet delay, blocking and handover failure probabilities ...
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The evaluation of the Cultural Journeys in the Information Society environment as an educational aid
(2005)The Cultural Journeys in the Information Society is a dynamic hypermedia environment, which proposes the Electronic Roads as a meta-form for exploring cultural information that can form Cultural Journeys. The Electronic ...
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Eye-tracking users' behavior in relation to Cognitive Style within an e-Learning environment
(2009)Eye-tracking measurements may be used as a method of identifying users' actual behavior in a hypermedia setting. In this research, an eye-tracking experiment was conducted in order to validate the construct of cognitive ...
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Global optimization for motion estimation with applications to ultrasound videos of carotid artery plaques
(2010)Motion estimation from digital video is an ill-posed problem that requires a regularization approach. Regularization introduces a smoothness constraint that can reduce the resolution of the velocity estimates. The problem ...
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Doctoral Thesis Open Access
Improving content delivery with OSN-awareness
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2016-11)Τα Δίκτυα Παράδοσης Περιεχομένου (CDN) χρειάζεται συχνά να ανακαλέσουν περιεχόμενο απαιτητικό σε εύρος ζώνης για καταναλωτές πληθώρας εφαρμογών (ηλεκτρονικής μάθησης, υγείας, κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, έξυπνων πολέων κ.ά.). ...
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Managing big data experiments on smartphones
(2016)The explosive number of smartphones with ever growing sensing and computing capabilities have brought a paradigm shift to many traditional domains of the computing field. Re-programming smartphones and instrumenting them ...
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Mobile computing with MPEG-21
(2005)In the field of multimedia content provision, many researchers investigate numerous techniques for adapting the content based on device, network, environment and user characteristics. In this paper, we present an MPEG-21 ...
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Modelling and implementing asynchronous timed multimedia frameworks using coordination principles
(2005)This paper combines work done in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia Systems and Coordination Programming to derive a framework for Distributed Multimedia Systems based on asynchronous timed computations ...
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Multimedia content adaptation: Operation selection in the MPEG-21 framework
(2005)Whilst many content adaptation operations exist and a number of different approaches are currently being proposed, selecting the right content adaptation operation is largely an ad hoc process. In this paper we discuss ...
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A multimedia programming model based on timed concurrent constraint programming
(1998)We propose the development of multimedia programming frameworks based on the declarative logic programming setting and in particular the framework of object-oriented timed concurrent constraint programming (OO-TCCP). The ...
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A NEHO based MBMS handover control approach
(2008)Handover Control is one of the essential means to guarantee the continuity of mobile services to a user traveling in a cellular infrastructure, without interruption. In previous work we illustrated that using the current ...