Multimedia Systems, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, 2000

• Prashant J. Shenoy, Harrick M. Vin:
  Failure Recovery Algorithms for Multimedia Servers. 1-19
  
• Marwan Krunz, George Apostolopoulos:
  Efficient Support for Interactive Scanning Operations in MPEG-Based Video-on-Demand Systems. 20-36
  
• Ralph Ford, Craig Robson, Daniel Temple, Michael Gerlach:
  Metrics for Shot Boundary Detection in Digital Video Sequences. 37-46
  
• Philip Kwok Chung Tse, Clement H. C. Leung:
  Improving Multimedia Systems Performance Using Constant-Density Recording Disks. 47-56
  
• Ravi Wijayaratne, A. L. Narasimha Reddy:
  Providing QOS Guarantees for Disk I/O. 57-68
  
• Rainer Lienhart, Wolfgang Effelsberg:
  Automatic Text Segmentation and Text Recognition for Video Indexing. 69-81
  

Volume 8, Number 2, 2000

• Sheng-Tzong Cheng, Chi-Ming Chen, Ing-Ray Chen:
  Dynamic Quota-Based Admission Control with Sub-Rating in Multimedia Servers. 83-91
  
• Constantinos Vassilakis, Michael Paterakis, Peter Triantafillou:
  Video Placement and Configuration of Distributed Video Servers on Cable TV Networks. 92-104
  
• Youjip Won, Jaideep Srivastava:
  SMDP: Minimizing Buffer Requirements for Continuous Media Servers. 105-117
  
• Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Rogério Ferreira Rodrigues, Débora C. Muchaluat:
  Modeling, Authoring and Formatting Hypermedia Documents in the HyperProp System. 118-134
  
• Michael Kozuch, Wayne Wolf, Andrew Wolfe:
  An Experimental Analysis of Digital Video Library Servers. 135-145
  
• Ping Bai, B. Prabhakaran, Aravind Srinivasan:
  Retrieval Scheduling for Collaborative Multimedia Presentations. 146-155
  

Volume 8, Number 3, 2000

• B. Prabhakaran:
  Multimedia authoring and presentation techniques - guest editor's introduction. 157
  
• Rainer Müller, Thomas Ottmann:
  The "Authoring on the Fly" system for automated recording and replay of (tele)presentations. 158-176
  
• Alan Borning, Richard Kuang-Hsu Lin, Kim Marriott:
  Constraint-based document layout for the Web. 177-189
  
• David De Roure, Steven Blackburn:
  Content-based navigation of music using melodic pitch contours. 190-200
  
• Tzi-cker Chiueh, Tulika Mitra, Anindya Neogi, Chuan-Kai Yang:
  Zodiac: A history-based interactive video authoring system. 201-211
  
• Sibel Adali, Maria Luisa Sapino, V. S. Subrahmanian:
  An algebra for creating and querying multimedia presentations. 212-230
  

• Khaled Shuaib, Tarek N. Saadawi, Myung J. Lee, Bert Basch:
  Dejittering in the transport of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video. 231-239
  
• Antonio Chimienti, Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Maurizio Lucenteforte, Romualdo Picco:
  MPEG-2 sources: exploiting source scalability for an efficient bandwidth allocation. 240-255
  

Volume 8, Number 4, 2002

• Klara Nahrstedt:
  Editor's Note. 257-257
  

• Kien A. Hua, Jung-Hwan Oh, Khanh Vu:
  An adaptive video multicast scheme for varying workloads. 258-269
  
• Prashant J. Shenoy, Pawan Goyal, Harrick M. Vin:
  Architectural considerations for next-generation file systems. 270-283
  
• Lixin Gao, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley:
  Efficient schemes for broadcasting popular videos. 284-294
  
• Junehwa Song, Asit Dan, Dinkar Sitaram:
  JINSIL: A middleware for presentation of composite multimedia objects in a distributed environment. 295-314
  
• Nathan T. Slingerland, Alan Jay Smith:
  Design and characterization of the Berkeley multimedia workload. 315-327
  
• Fotis Kokkoras, Haitao Jiang, Ioannis P. Vlahavas, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Elias N. Houstis, Walid G. Aref:
  Smart VideoText: a video data model based on conceptual graphs. 328-338
  

Volume 8, Number 5, December 2002

• Klara Nahrstedt:
  Editor's Note. 339
  
• Geoff Coulson, Shakuntala Baichoo, Oveeyen Moonian:
  A retrospective on the design of the GOPI middleware platform. 340-352
  
• Changsheng Xu, David Dagan Feng:
  Robust and efficient content-based digital audio watermarking. 353-368
  
• Tianming Liu, HongJiang Zhang, Wei Qi, Feihu Qi:
  A systematic rate controller for MPEG-4 FGS video streaming. 369-379
  
• Hojung Cha, Jongmin Lee, Jaehak Oh:
  Constructing a video server with tertiary storage: Practice and experience. 380-394
  
• Thomas Plagemann:
  Middleware + multimedia = multimedia middleware? 395-396
  
• Verena Kahmann, Lars C. Wolf:
  A proxy architecture for collaborative media streaming. 397-405
  
• Andrew P. Black, Jie Huang, Rainer Koster, Jonathan Walpole, Calton Pu:
  Infopipes: An abstraction for multimedia streaming. 406-419
  
• Baochun Li, Dongyan Xu, Klara Nahrstedt:
  An integrated runtime QoS-aware middleware framework for distributed multimedia applications. 420-430
  
• Denise J. Ecklund, Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann, Earl F. Ecklund Jr.:
  Dynamic end-to-end QoS management middleware for distributed multimedia systems. 431-442
  

Volume 8, Number 6, April 2003

• Klara Nahrstedt:
  Editor's Note. 443
  
• Sabu Emmanuel, Mohan S. Kankanhalli:
  A digital rights management scheme for broadcast video. 444-458
  
• Sunil Prabhakar, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Ambuj K. Singh, Terence R. Smith:
  Browsing and placement of multi-resolution images on parallel disks. 459-469
  
• Nikitas M. Sgouros:
  Analysis, management and indexing of distributed multimedia performances based on audience feedback. 470-481
  
• Lie Lu, HongJiang Zhang, Stan Z. Li:
  Content-based audio classification and segmentation by using support vector machines. 482-492
  
• Aidong Zhang, HongJiang Zhang:
  Introduction to the Special Issue on Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) Guest Editors. 493-494
  
• Yuqing Song, Aidong Zhang:
  Analyzing scenery images by monotonic tree. 495-511
  
• Beitao Li, Edward Y. Chang, Yi-Leh Wu:
  Discovery of a perceptual distance function for measuring image similarity. 512-522
  
• Yi-Shin Chen, Cyrus Shahabi:
  Yoda, an adaptive soft classification model: content-based similarity queries and beyond. 523-535
  
• Xiang Sean Zhou, Thomas S. Huang:
  Relevance feedback in image retrieval: A comprehensive review. 536-544