Various numbering schemes are used to track different versions and revisions of files, software packages, and documents. One major challenge in this regard is the lack of an all-purpose, adaptive, comprehensive and efficient standard. To resolve the challenge, this article presents Quadruple Adaptive Version Numbering Scheme. In the proposed scheme, the version identifier consists of four integ...

We describe a numbering scheme for versions with alternatives that has a useful lexicographical ordering. The version hierarchy is a tree. By inspection of the version numbers, we can easily determine whether one version is an ancestor of another. If so, we can determine the version sequence between these two versions. If not, we can determine the most recent common ancestor to these two versio...

In the context of virtual machines live migration, two strategies called “pre-copy” and “post-copy” have already been presented; but each of these strategies works well only in some circumstances. In this paper, we have a brief presentation of QAVNS and then introduce a new approach which is based on the concept of "informational object", assigning QAVNS-scheme-revision number, and observing th...

In order to achieve the virtual machines live migration, the two "pre-copy" and "post-copy" strategies are presented. Each of these strategies, depending on the operating conditions of the machine, may perform better than the other. In this article, a new algorithm is presented that automatically decides how the virtual machine live migration takes place. In this approach, the virtual machine m...

This paper addresses the issue of cell loss and its consequent effect on video quality in a packet video system, and examines possible compensative measures. In the system's enconder, adaptive spectral separation is used to develop a two-layer coding scheme comprising a high priority layer to carry essential video data and a low priority layer with data to enhance the video image. A two-step er...

This paper addresses the design and implementation of an adaptive document version management scheme. Existing schemes typically assume: (i) a priori expectations for how versions will be manipulated and (ii) fixed priorities between storage space usage and average access time. They are not appropriate for all possible applications. We introduce the concept of document version pertinence levels...

Commonly used in network routing, programming, classification and knowledge representation systems, labeling schemes have also interested the XML community. We thus motivate and describe numbering schemes, their applications, and the trade off between storage capacities and runtime performance. We present a taxonomy of numbering schemes for XML based on the types of supported queries (ancestor,...