This dissertation presents the Q-Compiler, which is a novel meta-data QoS programming and compilation framework for developing and deploying quality-aware applications. The Q-Compiler extends standard component construction ...

The reusability of available multimedia and middleware services brings new challenges for enabling flexible and efficient development and deployment of distributed end-to-end multimedia applications with specific ...

Component-based software development has evolved from tightly coupled object-oriented style to loosely coupled service-oriented style in the past few years. The new service-oriented paradigm will eventually allow heterogeneous ...

Resampling raw surface meshes is one of the most fundamental operations used by nearly all digital geometry processing systems. The vast majority of work in the past has focused on triangular remeshing; the equally important ...

We present a new method for simplifying simplicial complexes of any type embedded in Euclidean spaces of any dimension. At the heart of this system is a novel generalization of the quadric error metric used in surface ...

Surface remeshing is a fundamental problem in computer graphics, and can be found in most digital geometry processing systems. The majority of work in this area has focused on remeshing with triangle elements, yet quadrilateral ...

Expert systems typically utilize a declarative and uniform knowledge representation. The approach offers many operational advantages (e.g., a simple control structure), but is limited to expressing an expert's surface level ...