Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

By: Shi-Kuo Chang (Editor), Son T. Vuong (Editor), Taieb Znati (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 July 1999

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This volume addresses fundamental design issues and research topics related to multimedia systems, and provides a comprehensive study of the issues. Topics covered include: distributed multimedia databases and computing; multiparadigmatic information retrieval; modelling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems; OS support for distributed multimedia systems; multimedia communications and networking; multimedia digital libraries and mail systems; multimedia human-computer interaction; multimedia applications for CSCW, distant education, electronic commerce teleconferencing and telemedicine; visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications; multimedia workflows; and multimedia stream synchronization. In addition, a number of tutorial and overview articles are included so that the volume strikes a balance between introductory tutorials and advanced topics.

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Preface
Overview	p. 1
Advances in Multimedia Information Access	p. 3
ATM Based Networking Applications: A BC TEL Advanced Communications Perspective	p. 43
Distributed Multimedia Learning Environments	p. 55
Modeling and Specification	p. 67
A QoS-Message Directed Adaptive Distributed Multimedia System	p. 69
Application of Compositional Petri Nets and PN3-Tool to the Specification of Distributed Multimedia Objects	p. 99
Fluid-Flow Model for Variable-Bit-Rate Video in ATM Networks	p. 117
Architecture	p. 127
A Network Architecture to Support Policing and Scheduling of Tolerant Real-Time and Best-Effort Applications	p. 129
End-to-End QoS Functions Using Dynamic Rate Control Methods	p. 152
An Architecture for the Structured Analysis and Design of Participator Dependent Multimedia Presentations	p. 171
Server Design and Implementation	p. 189
A CORBA-Based Distributed Multimedia Collaboration System	p. 191
Quality-Based Flexible Distributed Objects	p. 219
Advance Reservation System in VOD Services	p. 240
Algorithms	p. 257
Storage-Efficient MPEG-2 Encoding	p. 259
Routing with Quality of Service Constraints	p. 284
Interactive Multimedia Systems	p. 301
Content-Based Video Query System Using Visualized Sound Index	p. 303
SCM - A Multimedia Conference System	p. 317
Index	p. 337
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