[ieeetcsc-discuss] [INFO] IEEE DS Online April Alert

[Marcin Paprzycki]

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IEEE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ONLINE
_http://dsonline.computer.org_ <http://dsonline.computer.org/>
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Volume 9, Number 4  --  April 2008

C O N T E N T S
1. Digesting Commercial Clips from TV Streams <article>
2. Virtual Organizations <article>
3. Teaching Grid Technologies to PhD Students, Part 2: Course Structure
and Experiences <education>
4. Demystifying RESTful Data Coupling <department>
5. Biometrics Could Streamline Border Crossings <news>
6. Is HTML in a Race to the Bottom? A Large-Scale Survey and Analysis of
Conformance to W3C Standards <department>
7. On-Demand Medium Access in Multihop Wireless Networks with Multiple
Beam Smart Antennas <article>

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1. FROM IEEE MULTIMEDIA
Digesting Commercial Clips from TV Streams
Ling-Yu Duan, Yan-Tao Zheng, Jinqiao Wang, Hanqing Lu, and Jesse S. Jin
A commercial system that performs syntactic and semantic analysis during
a TV advertising break could facilitate innovative new applications,
such as an intelligent set-top box that enhances the ability of viewers
to monitor and manage commercials from TV streams.
_http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/pages/dsonline/2008/04/o4mm.html_

2. FROM IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING: GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Virtual Organizations
Matei Ripeanu, Munindar P. Singh, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai
Today's organizations are no longer constrained by traditional time and
place barriers. Instead, information technology supports virtual
organizations: flexible networks of independent, globally distributed
entities that share knowledge and resources and work toward a common goal. _
__http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/pages/dsonline/2008/04/w2gei.html_

3. EDUCATION
Teaching Grid Technologies to PhD Students, Part 2: Course Structure and
Experiences
Dana Petcu
The second installment of this two-part department presents a case study
of the author's experiences in teaching Grid computing to PhD students
over the last three years. _
__http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/pages/dsonline/2008/04/o4001edu.html_

4. FROM IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING: TOWARD INTEGRATION
Demystifying RESTful Data Coupling
Steve Vinoski
Developers who favor technologies that promote interface specialization
typically raise two specific objections to the uniform-interface
constraint designed into the Representational State Transfer (REST)
architectural style.
_http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/pages/dsonline/2008/04/w2tow.html__
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5. NEWS
Biometrics Could Streamline Border Crossings
Greg Goth
Policy inconsistencies might still cause inconvenience and rifts.
_http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/pages/dsonline/2008/04/o4002news.html__
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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User-generated content can range from content created explicitly by the
user and uploaded to help shape their ubicomp experience through to
small contributions from large numbers of distributed contributors that
can subsequently be mined and analyzed.
IEEE Pervasive Computing invites submissions on all aspects of this theme.
The submission deadline is 1 May 2008.
For more information, see
_http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/pervasive/content/cfp4.html_.
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6. IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING: STANDARDS
Is HTML in a Race to the Bottom? A Large-Scale Survey and Analysis of
Conformance to W3C Standards
Patricia Beatty, Scott Dick, and James Miller
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) promulgates the HTML standards used
on the Web, but it has no authority to enforce the adoption of one
standard in favor of another._
__http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/pages/dsonline/2008/04/w2std.html__
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7. FROM IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL & DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
On-Demand Medium Access in Multihop Wireless Networks with Multiple Beam
Smart Antennas
Vivek Jain, Anurag Gupta, and Dharma P. Agrawal
A novel protocol, hybrid MAC (HMAC), enables concurrent packet reception
and concurrent packet transmission at a node equipped with multiple beam
antennas and is backward compatible with IEEE 802.11 DCF. Simulation
results show the superior performance of HMAC in most ad hoc scenarios.
_http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/pages/dsonline/2008/04/trans.html_

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