The ubiquitous availability of broadband Internet connectivity at home is driving the use of the Internet for entertainment and other forms of recreation. Paving the way for many demanding multimedia applications over IP, it has accelerated the emergence of new ideas for network-centric collaborative work that was impossible only a few years ago for both technical and economic reasons. Among ma...

Taking inspiration from the brain, where dynamic reconfiguration of neuron inter-connectivity occurs continually during learning [1], the field of re-configurable computing emerged a few decades back. These systems have the ability to adapt and make substantial changes to the data path and control flow on the re-configurable fabric. But, these systems, in the true sense, do not physically displ...

Web content hosting, in which a Web server stores and provides Web access to documents for different customers, is becoming increasingly common. For example, a web server can host webpages for several different companies and individuals. Traditionally, Web Service Providers (WSPs) provide all customers with the same level of performance (best-effort service). Most service differentiation has be...

As the Internet evolved, social networks (such as Facebook) have bloomed and brought together an astonishing number of users. Mashing up mobile phones and sensors with these social environments enables the creation of people-centric sensing systems which have great potential for expanding our current social networking usage. However, such systems also have many associated technical challenges, ...

This paper presents an exemplar-based method to provide intuitive way for users to generate 3D human body shape from semantic parameters. In our approach, human models and their semantic parameters are correlated as a single linear system of equations. When users input a new set of semantic parameters, a new 3D human body will be synthesized from the exemplar human bodies in the database. This ...