Euro-Par 2003 Parallel Processing
9th International Euro-Par Conference Klagenfurt, Austria, August 26-29, 2003 Proceedings
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This paper presents a cross-layer model— formulated using interoperable description formats—for the adaptation of scalable H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (i.e., SVC) content in a video streaming system operating on a Wirele...
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Much research is currently being conducted towards Universal Multimedia Access, aiming at removing barriers that arise when multimedia content is to be consumed with more and more heterogeneous devices and ove...
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This discussion paper attempts to propose emergency response and disaster management as worthwhile areas of applied research for the information system community. The typical requirements, entities and activit...
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Today, there are many technologies in place to establish an infrastructure for the delivery and consumption of multimedia content. In practice, however, several elements of such an infrastructure are often sta...
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An adaptive multimedia proxy is presented which provides (1) caching, (2) filtering, and (3) media gateway functionalities. The proxy can perform media adaptation on its own, either relying on layered coding or u...
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More and more data are structured, stored, and sent over a network using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) language. There are, however, concerns about the verbosity of XML in such a way that it may restrai...
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Personalized delivery of multimedia content over the Internet opens new business perspectives for future multimedia applications and thus plays an important role in the ongoing MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 multimedia st...
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Multimedia content is becoming increasingly important in many areas not only for pure entertainment but also for commercial or educational purposes like, e.g., distance learning or online training. In parallel...
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Universal Multimedia Access (UMA), where users can consume any multimedia resource anywhere at any time, is the driving vision of ongoing ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) stand...
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9th International Euro-Par Conference Klagenfurt, Austria, August 26-29, 2003 Proceedings
Chapter and Conference Paper
Communication networks, protocols, and application programming interfaces (APIs) are crucial factors for the performance of parallel and distributed computations. This topic of Euro-Par 2003 is therefore devot...
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Multimedia is gaining ever more importance on the Internet. This increases the need for intelligent and efficient video caches. A promising approach to improve caching efficiency is to adapt videos. With the a...
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This paper describes an unconventional way to apply a performance analysis tool for parallel programs (Vampir) to understand and tune the performance of the real-time voice and data communication software runn...
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