Multimedia Information Systems

✍ Scribed by Giuseppe Amato, Giovanni Mainetto, Pasquale Savino (auth.), V. S. Subrahmanian, Satish K. Tripathi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 144
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Multimedia Information Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.
Multimedia Information Systems serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-7
An Approach to a Content-Based Retrieval of Multimedia Data....Pages 9-36
Conceptual Modeling and Querying in Multimedia Databases....Pages 37-66
QOS-aware Middleware for Mobile Multimedia Communications....Pages 67-82
BRAHMA: Browsing and Retrieval Architecture for Hierarchical Multimedia Annotation....Pages 83-101
Handling Updates and Crashes in VoD Systems....Pages 103-132
A Resource Reservation Scheme for Synchronized Distributed Multimedia Sessions....Pages 133-146

✦ Subjects

Multimedia Information Systems; Information Storage and Retrieval; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Processor Architectures; Computer Science, general