The specification and management of quality of service (QoS) is important in networks and
distributed computing systems, particularly to support multimedia applications. The advent of …

Transcoding proxies are used as intermediaries between generic World Wide Web servers
and a variety of client devices in order to adapt to the greatly varying bandwidths of different …

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for regen erating portions of the page that
have changed and trans mitting only those portions to the client for display. In one aspect …

Adaptation of software systems is almost an inevitable process, due to the change in
customer requirements, needs for faster development of new, or maintenance of existing …

(54) METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR 5,129,084 A 7/1992 Kelly, Jr. et al.
COMMUNICATING CHANGES BETWEEN A 5,142,679 A 8/1992 Owaki et al. USER …

Ubiquitous web applications adhering to the anytime/anywhere/anymedia paradigm are
required to be customisable meaning the adaptation of their services towards a certain …

The Web is more and more used as a platform for full-fledged increasingly complex
applications, where a huge amount of change-intensive data is managed by underlying …

An extension to the seven-layer OSI Reference Model is proposed as a way to facilitate
discussions between HCI practitioners on one hand, and application and network …

Mobile computing is gaining wide acceptance due to the rapid enhancement in wireless
communications technologies. This has led to an increase in the demand for mobile …

Using 22 pb− 1 of data collected at LEP in 1992 on the peak of the Z resonance, the ALEPH
collaboration has measured the polarisation of the tau leptons decaying into ev ̄ v, μ v ̄ v …