Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services

1. CHEOPS: Adaptive hypermedia on World Wide Web

   • Salvatore Ferrandino, Alberto Negro, Vittorio Scarano

   Pages 210-219

2. Application Output Recording for instant authoring in a distributed multimedia annotation environment

   • Hartmut Benz, Steffen Fischer, Rolf Mecklenburg, Andreas Wenger

   Pages 220-230

3. Video data management in Media Controller: A distributed multimedia surveillance system

   • Akihiro Tsukada, Toshihiko Hata, Fumio Matsuda, Kazuya Sato, Minoru Ozaki

   Pages 231-240

4. Personalised News On Demand: The “HyNoDe” service

   • The HyNoDe consortium

   Pages 241-250

5. Broadband Video Conference Customer Premises Equipment

   • H. Brandt, C. Tittel, P. Todorova, J. J. Tchouto, M. Welk

   Pages 251-260

6. Radio webs — Support architecture for mobile web access

   • Reiner Ludwig, Norbert Niebert, Raphaël Quinet

   Pages 261-271

7. An approach for an adaptive visualization in a mobile environment

   • Luc Neumann, Alberto B. Raposo

   Pages 272-282

8. Multimedia client implementation on Personal Digital Assistants

   • Markus Lauff, Hans-Werner Gellersen

   Pages 283-295

9. Combining CORBA and ITU-T.120 to an efficient conferencing service

   • Tobias Helbig, Stefan Tretter, Dirk Trossen

   Pages 296-307

10. Supportive environments for executing multimedia applications

    • Mario Bochicchio, Paolo Paolini

    Pages 308-319

11. Patterns for constructing CSCW applications in TINA

    • Eckhart Koerner

    Pages 320-329

12. Performance evaluation of the Fuzzy Policing Mechanism for still picture in ATM networks

    • Leonard Barolli, Kuninobu Tanno, Ardian Greca

    Pages 330-341

13. Implementation of an audio/video conferencing application over native ATM

    • Torsten Braun, Andreas Reisenauer

    Pages 342-351

14. A native ATM API suited for multimedia communication

    • Stefan Dresler, Markus Hofmann, Claudia Schmidt, Hajo R. Wiltfang

    Pages 352-363

15. A model for collaborative services in distributed learning environments

    • Volker Hilt, Werner Geyer

    Pages 364-375

16. Using distributed multimedia infrastructures for advanced teleteaching applications

    • Olaf Neumann, Sandra Rennecke, Alexander Schill

    Pages 376-385

17. A scalable scheme to access multimedia documents with quality of service guarantees

    • Abdelhakim Hafid, Raouf Boutaba

    Pages 386-396

18. A client-controlled adaptation framework for multimedia database systems

    • Silvia Hollfelder, Achim Kraiss, Thomas C. Rakow

    Pages 397-409

19. Interactive multimedia communications at the presentation layer

    • Chung-Ming Huang, Chian Wang

    Pages 410-419

20. Modeling of adaptable multimedia documents

    • Stefan Wirag

    Pages 420-429

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services, IDMS'97, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in September 1997. The 41 revised full papers presented in the book were selected from over 100 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on media coding and content processing, development and interoperability, on-demand systems, multicast and FEC, video server and systems, video transmission, production and authoring, multimedia applications, mobility, CSCW and system performance, MM communication over ATM networks, CSCW and teleteaching, QoS for media presentations, QoS and scaling.

• ATM
• CSCW
• Performance
• QoS
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• communication
• multimedia

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