Advances in multimedia information systems

Advances in Multimedia Information Systems: 4th International Workshop, MIS’98 Istanbul, Turkey September 24–26, 1998 Proceedings<br />Author: <br /> Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg<br /> ISBN: 978-3-540-65107-9<br /> DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49651-3<br /><br />Table of Contents:<p></p><ul><li>Quality of Service Support for Multimedia Data on Internet </li><li>Heterogeneous Data Integration with Mobile Information Managers </li><li>A Scalable Video-on-Demand Server for a Dynamic Heterogeneous Environment </li><li>Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for Video-on-Demand </li><li>Deciding Round Length and Striping Unit Size for Multimedia Servers </li><li>Management and Rendering of Multimedia Views </li><li>NETCICATS: Network-Conscious Image Compression and Transmission System </li><li>ABR Service in ATM Networks: Performance Comparison Between BECN and Adaptive Stochastic Congestion Control Schemes with Guaranteed Minimum Cell Rate </li><li>An Admission Control Framework for Applications with Variable Consumption Rates in Client-Pull Architectures </li><li>Accurate Modelling of VBR Coded Video Sources in ATM Networks </li><li>Retrieving Images by Content: The Surfimage System </li><li>Weakly Constraining Multimedia Types Based on a Type Embedding Ordering </li><li>Balancing Workload and Communication Cost for a Distributed Virtual Environment </li><li>Network Visualization of Heterogeneous US Army War Reserve Readiness Data </li><li>A Museum-Oriented Authoring Tool </li><li>Modeling and Retrieving Audiovisual Information - A Soccer Video Retrieval System </li><li>A Flexible Architecture for the Integration of Media Servers and Databases </li><li>Sketch- Based Images Database Retrieval </li><li>An Integrated Data Model and a Query Language for Content- Based Retrieval of Video </li><li>Virtual Reality for Image Retrieval</li></ul>