Current and emerging real-time and multimedia applications like multi-party collaboration, internet telephony and distributed command control systems require the exchange of information over distributed and heterogeneous nodes. Multiple data types including voice, video, sensor data, real-time intelligence data and text are being transported widely across today's information, control and survei...

When deciding between two alternatives, such as whether to order the pasta or the chicken, or whether to pursue a career in academia or industry, a person may feel torn—as if the options literally pull him or her in two directions. This metaphor may have some surprising literal truth. If asked, for example, whether ‘‘murder is sometimes justified,’’ individuals may be inclined to both agree and...

Based on the position of a single CODP, the production planning of mass customization is divided into two stages, make-to-stock production before CODP and make-to-order production after CODP. However, in the case of multiple CODPS, production planning of mass customization can be much more complex. This paper presents a dynamic mass customization system, that is, a three-stage production planni...

Most large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming systems use mesh to organize peers and leverage pull scheduling to transmit packets for providing robustness in dynamic environment. The pull scheduling brings large packet delay. Network coding makes the push scheduling feasible in mesh P2P live streaming and improves the efficiency. However, it may also introduce some extra delays and coding ...

AJAX applications are designed to have high user interactivity and low user-perceived latency. Real-time dynamic web data such as news headlines, stock tickers, and auction updates need to be propagated to the users as soon as possible. However, AJAX still suffers from the limitations of the Web’s request/response architecture which prevents servers from pushing real-time dynamic web data. Such...