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The field of robotics encloses mechanics, electronics, computer intelligent control and network communication technology. It has application in industry, exploration, public service and medicine. Through supervisory control modes, robotic system can be controlled from remote places and thus preventing the user from direct contact with hazardous and inaccessible environment. Moreover, with the d...

Current techniques for providing collaborative visual analysis of remote scientific data using the Internet are reviewed. It is shown why the tools in common use today, such as Microsoft’s NetMeeting, do not provide scientists with highly interactive viewing of high resolution dynamic scenes of remote data when using typical Internet connections. New tools that do provide these capabilities in ...

1 Rima Abdallah. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse IRIT-Université Paul Sabatier UPS –Toulouse, France In collaboration with American University of Beirut, Co-Tutelle UPS(Université Paul Sabatier)-UL(Université Libanaise) Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 2 Ale el Hajj, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of engineering and archi...

Real-time collaboration systems, in which participants share multimedia documents and applications in real time, have been a subject of interest for many years. Although computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) systems have existed for a long time [1], Web-based collaboration tools, such as Microsoft NetMeeting, have started to emerge relatively recently. Moreover, there has been much advance...

As the computer network technology has evolved, the Internet has spread out to include variety of users. They get together and create communities on the network, so that virtual relations between people have been emerging. Many such virtual communities use chat rooms, mailing lists and message boards making use of the existing applications. On the other hand, informal communication such as a ch...

Buffer overflow attack is the most common and arguably the most dangerous attack method used in Internet security breach incidents reported in the public literature. Various solutions have been developed to address the buffer overflow vulnerability problem in both research and commercial communities. Almost all the solutions that provide adequate protection against buffer overflow attacks are i...

participants share multimedia documents and applications, have attracted interest for many years. The JETS system provides a generic multimedia telecollaboration framework that enables sharing of Java applets through the Internet. Experimentation with JETS revealed practical design and implementation issues, as well as the essential requirements of such systems. T he introduction of Java as a p...

Video communication is an important application in wireless ad hoc network environment. Although current off-the-shelf video communication software would work for ad hoc network operating under stable conditions (e.g., extremely low link and node failures), video communications for ad hoc network operating under extreme conditions remain a challenging problem. This is because traditional video ...