Advances in Multimedia Information Systems

by Jajodia, Sushil; Ozsu, M. Tamer; Dogac, Asuman; International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems 1998 istan

• ISBN13: 9783540651079
• ISBN10: 3540651071
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, MIS'98, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 1998.The book presents 13 revised full papers together with six short papers and two abstracts of invited talks. Among the topics addressed are multimedia storage system design, image storage and retrieval, quality of service considerations, networking support for multimedia information systems, distributed virtual environments, and multimedia system architecture issues.

Table of Contents

Quality of Service Support for Multimedia Data on Internet (Invited Talk)	1	(1)
S.K. Tripathi
Heterogeneous Data Integration with Mobile Information Manager (Invited Talk)	2	(2)
V. Tannen
A Scalable Video-on-Demand Server for a Dynamic Heterogeneous Environment	4	(14)
M. Papadopouli
L. Golubchik
Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for Video-on-Demand	18	(15)
D.L. Eager
M.K. Vernon
Deciding Round Length and Striping Unit Size for Multimedia Servers	33	(12)
K.O. Lee
H.Y. Yeom
Management and Rendering of Multimedia Views	45	(12)
K.S. Candan
E. Lemar
V.S. Subrahmanian
NETCICATS: Network-Conscious Image Compression and Transmission System	57	(12)
S. Iren
P.D. Amer
P.T. Conrad
ABR Service in ATM Networks: Performance Comparison Between BECN and Adaptive Stochastic Congestion Control Schemes with Guaranteed Minimum Cell Rate	69	(13)
S.S. Petrovic
An Admission Control Framework for Applications with Variable Consumption Rates in Client-Pull Architectures	82	(16)
S. Hollfelder
K. Aberer
Accurate Modelling of VBR Coded Video Sources in ATM Networks	98	(12)
G. Sisodia
M. Hedley
S. De
L. Guan
Retrieving Images by Content: The Surfimage System	110	(11)
C. Nastar
M. Mitschke
N. Boujemaa
C. Meilhac
H. Bernard
M. Mantref
Weakly Constraining Multimedia Types Based on a Type Embedding Ordering	121	(9)
C. Altenschmidt
J. Biskup
J. Freitag
B. Sprick
Balancing Workload and Communication Cost for a Distributed Virtual Environment	130	(6)
J.C.S. Lui
M.F. Chan
O.K.Y. So
T.S. Tam
Networked Visualization of Heterogeneous US Army War Reserve Readiness Data	136	(12)
J.H. Schafer
T.J. Rogers
J.A. Marin
A Museum-Oriented Authoring Tool	148	(13)
A. Grimaldi
T. Catarci
Modeling and Retrieving Audiovisual Information - A Soccer Video Retrieval System	161	(13)
A. Woudstra
D.D. Velthausz
H.J.G. de Poot
F.M. El-Hadidy
W. Jonker
M.A.W. Houtsma
R.G. Heller
J.N.H. Heemskerk
A Flexible Architecture for the Integration of Media Servers and Databases	174	(11)
H. Sub
Sketch-Based Images Database Retrieval	185	(7)
S. Matusiak
M. Daoudi
T. Blu
O. Avaro
An Integrated Data Model and A Query Language for Content-Based Retrieval of Video	192	(7)
Y.I. Choi
Y.M. Park
H.S. Lee
S.I. Jin
Virtual Reality for Image Retrieval	199	(6)
J. Assfalg
A. Del Bimbo
P. Pala
Trends in Visual Information Retrieval (Panel Description)	205	(2)
C. Nastar
Author Index	207