DiffServ is the basis of contemporary QoS-enabled networks. Setting up DiffServ QoS requires extensive engineering effort in dimensioning and provisioning, especially for adjacent networks under different administrati...
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(纸本)0780395654
DiffServ is the basis of contemporary QoS-enabled networks. Setting up DiffServ QoS requires extensive engineering effort in dimensioning and provisioning, especially for adjacent networks under different administrations linked in a "federated" hierarchy. In this paper we present a case study for QoS techniques employed in the GRNET MAN networks of Athens and Crete. After introducing the supported QoS mechanisms and service types, we discuss our dimensioning methodology and present two algorithms for worst-case dimensioning. We explain the provisioning mechanisms of GRNET and we present in brief our new automated provisioning ANS tool. Finally, we deal with the extension of our mechanisms and tools in hierarchically federated networks and give some future directions of our work.
In this paper, we present a web-based intelligent education system to help students and tutors in the context of an AI course. We concentrate on the knowledge management and student evaluation aspects of the system. K...
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(纸本)0889864802
In this paper, we present a web-based intelligent education system to help students and tutors in the context of an AI course. We concentrate on the knowledge management and student evaluation aspects of the system. Knowledge management mainly refers to test questions construction and management. Student evaluation refers to the evaluation of the knowledge level of a student with regards to taught concepts. A rule-based expert system helps in student evaluation. A number of statistics provided by the system give valuable information to the tutor.
A novel method for summarizing videos of gestures is presented. The gestures performed by the hands and the head are extracted through skin color segmentation and represented through Zernike moments. The gesture energ...
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Virtual Enterprises are a, relatively, new business model that is greatly depended on network technology. Providing services in such an environment is a challenge in itself;architectural, technological and organisatio...
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Virtual Enterprises are a, relatively, new business model that is greatly depended on network technology. Providing services in such an environment is a challenge in itself;architectural, technological and organisational difficulties have not permitted yet the development of a framework for Virtual Enterprise enaction. In this paper we describe a Virtual Private Network architecture that uses special monitor and coordination processes in order to achieve efficient delivery of services and activities in Virtual Enterprise environments. We discuss the general architecture of the system, emphasising on the solutions used to monitor and co-ordinate various activities.
The challenge of the Semantic Web Mining technologies in the e-Learning domain can relate to the provision of personalized experiences for the users. Particularly, these applications can take into consideration the in...
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(纸本)0889864802
The challenge of the Semantic Web Mining technologies in the e-Learning domain can relate to the provision of personalized experiences for the users. Particularly, these applications can take into consideration the individual needs and requirements of learners. In this paper, we propose a framework for personalised e-Learning based on aggregate usage profiles and a domain ontology. We have distinguished two stages in the whole process, one of offline tasks that includes data preparation, ontology creation and usage mining and one of online tasks that concerns the production of recommendations.
We propose a simple and intuitive cost mechanism which assigns costs for the competitive usage of m resources by n selfish agents. Each agent has an individual demand;demands are drawn according to some probability di...
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We present an improved upper bound on the competitiveness of the online coloring algorithm First-Fit in disk graphs which are graphs representing overlaps of disks on the plane. We also show that this bound is best po...
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The Semantic Web is about adding formal structure and explicit semantics to web content for the purpose of more efficient information management and access by both humans and computers. Through the use of machine unde...
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(纸本)0863415954
The Semantic Web is about adding formal structure and explicit semantics to web content for the purpose of more efficient information management and access by both humans and computers. Through the use of machine understandable semantics, web resources become much easier and more readily accessible. Populating the Semantic Web with multimedia metadata requires for appropriate technologies to support both the analysis (metadata extraction) and the annotation (metadata creation) processes. The media- and content-specific semantics of multimedia resources pose great challenges in terms of capturing and manipulating the two layer semantics given the available knowledge representation formalisms. The Knowledge Web project, advancing ontology technologyresearch efforts and ensuring transferring the semantic web from academia to industry, has provided solutions to some of the most challenging multimedia related problems.
In this paper, we present the design principles for virtual spaces and two different tools as solutions for supporting e-collaboration and multi-user communication in Web-based learning communities. The first solution...
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In this paper, we present the design principles for virtual spaces and two different tools as solutions for supporting e-collaboration and multi-user communication in Web-based learning communities. The first solution, called Virtual Conference, is designed and implemented in the framework of the VirRAD European project. It is a two-dimensional space where participants represented by their photos can use various e-collaboration tools. The second solution, called EVE Training Area, is a three-dimensional space where participants, represented by 3D humanoid avatars, can use a variety of e-collaboration tools. This paper describes the functionality provided by both tools, compares them, and proposes cases for exploiting each solution.
UMTS is evolving toward a future wireless all-IP network. In this paper we present how it supports realtime IP multimedia services, as these services are expected to drive the adoption of wireless all-IP networks. The...
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UMTS is evolving toward a future wireless all-IP network. In this paper we present how it supports realtime IP multimedia services, as these services are expected to drive the adoption of wireless all-IP networks. The scheme of real time streaming video is one of the newcomers in wireless data communication and in particular in UMTS, raising a number of novel requirements in both telecommunication and data communication systems. This scheme applies when the mobile user is experiencing real time video content. In this work we focus on the design and implementation of a rate and loss control mechanism for monitoring the UMTS network state and estimating the appropriate rate of the streaming video data.
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