In the Internet, the majority of the traffic is elastic, and is characterized by the fact that such traffic can withstand loose bounds on performance guarantees. It is a well-understood fact, however, that once the performance ...

MPEG audio compression techniques significantly reduces the storage and transmission requirements for high quality digital audio. However, compression complicates the processing of audio in many applications. If a compressed ...

In recent times, the Internet revolution has spawned numerous innovative enterprises-virtual companies, and electronic markets. Electronic markets (or digital markets) are scalable web-based platforms for buyers, sellers, ...

Component Based Development has emerged as economical, reusable, scalable way of developing enterprise as well as embedded software applications. Testing distributed component based systems is difficult when third party ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) provides a more efficient and faster solution for many real-world problems such as form readers for various application forms, bank cheque reading, and postal mail sorting. Manual operation ...

This thesis proposes some efficient algorithms for training Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for large-scale datasets with emphasis on the regression problem. Training a support vector machine leads to solving a convex ...