Mobile Services Infrastructure for Frailty Diagnosis Support based on Gower’s Similarity Coefficient and Treemaps

Machine Cell Formation Based on a New Similarity Coefficient

One of the designs of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) requires that a machine population be partitioned into machine cells. Numerous methods are available for clustering machines into machine cells. One method involves using a similarity coefficient. Similarity coefficients between machines are not absolute, and they still need more attention from researchers. Although there are a number o...

Exploring infrastructure support for app-based services on cloud platforms

Major infrastructure-as-a-cloud (IaaS) providers have recently been building marketplaces of “cloud apps,” which are VMs pre-installed with a variety of software stacks. Clients of cloud computing leverage such markets by downloading and instantiating the apps that best suit their computing needs, thereby saving the effort needed to configure and build

Correlation-Based Similarity Measure for Multimedia Services With QoS Support

User modelling will extensively be used in future multiservice communication networks. By using its techniques, network operaters and service providers will be able to learn about the user habits and to serve his/her requests more efficiently. In this paper, we describe a correlation-based pseudometric that could be used for creating a model for estimation of the services the user is likely to ...

Guest Editorial Cloud-Based Mobile Media: Infrastructure, Services and Applications

The proliferation of smart phones and tablets have fuelled a new wave of demand for mobile services. Today's users not only expect ubiquitous network connections, but also seek a rich media experience wherever they go and whenever they need. The thrive of mobile media gives rise to a multi-fold of technical challenges. It is hard to sustain satisfactory quality of experience over inherently unr...

Infrastructure support for adaptive mobile applications