M.Sc.

       The process of the characteristic feature extraction is one of the adopted techniques for the purpose of pattern recognition in the images.

In this thesis, a method for color image watermarking is suggested. It requires the original image for watermark extraction.

Distributed systems are becoming more and more important. Technically spoken, the sharing of system resources (Hardware (H/W) or Software (S/W)) is one important motivation in distributed systems. Therefore, a new programming paradigm for the design and implementation of distributed systems at which resources can be easily detected and used immediately (i.e. plug and play)appeared.