Advanced Database Research and Development Series: Volume 8

Digital Media Information Base

Proceedings of the International Symposium

, Nara, Japan

, 26 – 28 November 1997

https://doi.org/10.1142/3759 | March 1998

Pages: 336

Edited by:
Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),
Shunsuke Uemura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), and
Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)

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With the rapid growth of computer and communication technologies, the creation, modification and distribution of digital multimedia information have become easier than ever. Such multimedia information includes still images, video, audio, texts and artifacts in virtual space. The efficient storage of valuable information and rapid access to it is crucial to all modern organizations.

This proceedings volume consists of papers by researchers and academicians which explore the various aspects of the digital media information base. A special emphasis is placed on new database system technologies.

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The Block-World Data Model for the Realization of Three-Dimensional Virtual Work Space (1,620 KB)

Contents:

Databases for Virtual Space
Advanced Object-Oriented Databases
Multimedia Data Management
Information Filtering and Browsing
Video Databases
Query Processing
Document Databases

Readership: Advanced students, lecturers and researchers in the field of the digital media information base.

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Digital Media Information Base: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Digital Media Information Base

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https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814528702

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The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

Preface
Session 1: Invited Talk I
- Digital Library and InterMedia Technologies for Universal Access
Session 2A: Databases for Virtual Space
- The Block-World Data Model for the Realization of Three-Dimensional Virtual Work Space
- Authoring and Retrieval of Digital Assets for Virtual Studio Systems
- Use of Object Co-Existence Relationships for Generation of Virtual Hypermedia Maps
Session 2B: Advanced Object-Oriented Databases
- Specification of Intentional Multimedia Presentations using an Object-Oriented Database
- Classification of Late Roman Bronze Coins Using an Object-Oriented Database
- The View Table Approach to Manage Soft Constraints on Complex Object
Session 3A: Multimedia Data Management
- Selective Progressive Image Transmission Using Diagonal Sampling technique
- An Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Data Management for Highly Interactive Environment
- Flexible Play Back Facilities for Distance Education
Session 3B: Information Filtering and Browsing
- Incremental Clustering for Dynamic Information Filtering
- Semantics of Incomplete Database for Global Query Processing
- A Method for Retrieving Relevant Entries of Molecular Biology Databases using Word Co-occurrence Frequency
- Functions of Browsing Navigator
Session 4: Invited Talk II
- TERC+: A Temporal Conceptual Model
- Distributed Information Mediation and Query Processing in a CORBA Environment
- – Deductive Object-Oriented Databases – Technology, Products and Applications: where are we?
Session 5A: Video Databases
- New Indexing Method for Content-Based Video Retrieval and Clustering for MPEG Video Database
- Clustering and Authoring of Video Shots Using Hybrid-type Self-Organizing Maps
- Exploiting Data Structures in a High Performance Video Server for TV archives
- Semantic Representation of Video Content based on Prototype-Instance Model
Session 5B: Query Processing
- An Efficient Indexing Scheme for Temporal Joins in Relational Environment
- A Parallel Optimistic Dynamic Optimization of Discrimination Networks for Active Databases
- Implementation and Evaluation of Parallel Relational Query Processing Using Transposed Files on Shared Memory Multiprocessors
- A Dynamic Parallel Query Scheduling for Distributed Shared Persistent Object Stores
Session 6: Invited Talk III
- Searching Multimedia Databases by Content
- Design Issues and Solutions in Continuous Media Servers
Session 7: Invited Talk IV
- Views of Text
- Indexing Documents for Queries on Structure, Content, and Attributes
- Subgroup Mining in Temporal, Spatial, and Textual Databases
Session 8A: Document Databases
- Integrated Querying and Restructuring of the World Wide Web and Databases
- The Development of a Document Digitizing System: The “Information Factory”
- Dynamic Properties of Attributes for Structured Documents Access
Session 8B: Mobile Databases and Transaction Management
- Relocation Decision Policies for Mobile Replicas
- Energy-Efficient Index Replication for Wireless Data Broadcasting
- On Unifying Message and Transaction Management for Collaborative Design Work
- Using OCP to Build Flexible Coordination Protocols: A Transactional Multi-media Application
Appendix
- Slides of Invited Talk I