Multimedia Modeling

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Multimedia-Hypermedia I

  • Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems: A Proposal for a Reference Model

  • Anchors and Links for Nested Composite Nodes

  • Conceptual Modeling for Information Filtering in Broadcast Interactive Video Applications

• Chapter 2: Multimedia Applications

  • TeleSHOP: A Multimedia Communication Shopping System

  • Multimedia Integration into a Distance Learning Environment

  • Models for Enforcing Multimedia Synchronization in Visioconference Applications

• Chapter 3: Formal Approaches

  • Set-based Hypermedia Modeling

  • Spatial Reasoning Rules in Multimedia Management Systems

  • Formal Model of Temporal Properties Underlying Multimedia Presentations

  • Hypermedia Document Design Using the HTSPN Model

• Chapter 4: Networking Issues

  • A Leaves Initiated Resource Reservation Multicast Service for Group Delivery of Scaleable Multimedia Data over ATM Networks

  • Optimizing Partially Ordered Transport Services for Multimedia Applications

  • Synchronization Model in a Multimedia Client Server Architecture

  • A Model for the Analysis of Intramedia Synchronization in a Multimedia Data Stream Served by an ATM Multiplexer

• Chapter 5: Multimedia-Hypermedia II

  • Synchronization of Distributed Multimedia Systems with User Interactions

  • Pseudo-tree Data Structure for Content-based Composition and Synchronization of Multimedia Presentations

  • The MATILDA Data Model and its Implications

• Chapter 6: Information Retrieval I

  • A Multimedia Information Object Model for Information Disclosure

  • The Roles and Views of Multimedia Objects

• Chapter 7: Information Retrieval II

  • Conceptual Title Abstractions: Modeling and Querying Very Large Interactive Multimedia Repositories

  • Using Domain Knowledge in Querying Image Databases

  • Automatic Model Building from Images for Multimedia Systems

  • A New Shape Distance For Content Based Image Retrieval

• Chapter 8: Real-Time and Video Servers

  • IITB-VOD: A Video on Demand System for General Purpose Workstations

  • Evaluations of Soft Real-time Handling Methods in a Soft Real-time Framework

  • Statistical Admission Control in Video Servers with Constant Data Length Retrieval of VBR Streams

• Chapter 9: New Directions

  • Holographic Images in Multimedia Information Systems

  • Autonomous Entities in Distributed Virtual Environments

• Conference Organizing Committee

• International Program Committee

• List of Sponsors

• List of Technical Reviewers

• Author Index