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Loss Aware Rate Allocations In H.263 Coded Video Transmissions, Xiao Su, Benjamin Wah Dec 2005

Loss Aware Rate Allocations In H.263 Coded Video Transmissions, Xiao Su, Benjamin Wah

Faculty Publications

For packet video, information loss and bandwidth limitation are two factors that affect video playback quality. Traditional rate allocation approaches have focused on optimizing video quality under bandwidth constraint alone. However, in the best-effort Internet, packets carrying video data are susceptible to losses, which need to be reconstructed at the receiver side. In this paper, we propose loss aware rate allocations in both group-of-block (GOB) level and macroblock level, given that certain packets are lost during transmissions and reconstructed using simple interpolation methods at the receiver side. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithms can produce videos of higher quality …


The Igipi Ontological Framework: Integrating Gene Interactions With Protein Interactions, Bill Andreopoulos, Aijun An, Xiangji Huang Oct 2005

The Igipi Ontological Framework: Integrating Gene Interactions With Protein Interactions, Bill Andreopoulos, Aijun An, Xiangji Huang

Faculty Publications, Computer Science

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Ontologies In Web Personalization, Magdalini Eirinaki, Michalis Vazirgiannis Oct 2005

Ontologies In Web Personalization, Magdalini Eirinaki, Michalis Vazirgiannis

Faculty Publications

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Ikum: An Integrated Web Personalization Platform Based On Content Structures And User Behavior, Magdalini Eirinaki, Joannis Vlachakis, Sarabjot Anand Jan 2005

Ikum: An Integrated Web Personalization Platform Based On Content Structures And User Behavior, Magdalini Eirinaki, Joannis Vlachakis, Sarabjot Anand

Faculty Publications

Web personalization is the process of customizing a web site to the needs of each specific user or set of users, taking advantage of the knowledge acquired through the analysis of the user’s navigational behavior. The objective of the I-KnowUMine project (IKUM) is to develop an integrated platform (referred to in the paper as the “IKUM system”) that uses state of the art technology and research results from different application domains in order to provide the basis for the development of online services in a wide range of application areas, presenting personalized content, services and applications to users in a …


Unpredictable Binary Strings, Richard Low, Mark Stamp, R. Craigen, G. Faucher Jan 2005

Unpredictable Binary Strings, Richard Low, Mark Stamp, R. Craigen, G. Faucher

Faculty Publications, Computer Science

We examine a class of binary strings arising from considerations about stream cipher encryption: to what degree can one guarantee that the number of pairs of entries distance k apart that disagree is equal to the number that agree, for all small k? In a certain sense, a keystream with such a property achieves a degree of unpredictability. The problem is also restated combinatorially in terms of seating arrangements. We examine sequences s of length 2n in which this property holds for all k ≤ Mn, where Mn is the largest number for which this is possible among strings of …