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Distribution of multimedia content through the Internet has become a trend in the present technology-aged community. Network supported multimedia applications involve many different transmission capabilities which are used to deliver content through streaming to a wide range of …

An automated computerized algorithm for identifying and blocking pornographic content was designed. Primitive information on pornography is studied and used to determine if a given image falls under the pornographic category. In this thesis the pornography image is defined as im…

Large-scale heterogeneous distributed computing environments (such as Computational Grids and Clouds) offer the promise of access to a vast amount of computing resources at a relatively low cost. In order to ease the application development and deployment on such complex environ…