Advances in Multimedia Information Systems: 4th International Workshop, MIS'98, Istanbul, Turkey September 24-26, 1998, Proceedings (Paperback, 1998)

Quality of Service Support for Multimedia Data on Internet.- Heterogeneous Data Integration with Mobile Information Managers.- A Scalable Video-on-Demand Server for a Dynamic Heterogeneous Environment.- Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for Video-on-Demand.- Deciding Round Length and Striping Unit Size for Multimedia Servers.- Management and Rendering of Multimedia Views.- NETCICATS: Network-Conscious Image Compression and Transmission System.- ABR Service in ATM Networks: Performance Comparison Between BECN and Adaptive Stochastic Congestion Control Schemes with Guaranteed Minimum Cell Rate.- An Admission Control Framework for Applications with Variable Consumption Rates in Client-Pull Architectures.- Accurate Modelling of VBR Coded Video Sources in ATM Networks.- Retrieving Images by Content: The Surfimage System.- Weakly Constraining Multimedia Types Based on a Type Embedding Ordering.- Balancing Workload and Communication Cost for a Distributed Virtual Environment.- Network Visualization of Heterogeneous US Army War Reserve Readiness Data.- A Museum-Oriented Authoring Tool.- Modeling and Retrieving Audiovisual Information - A Soccer Video Retrieval System.- A Flexible Architecture for the Integration of Media Servers and Databases.- Sketch- Based Images Database Retrieval.- An Integrated Data Model and a Query Language for Content- Based Retrieval of Video.- Virtual Reality for Image Retrieval.- Trends in Visual Information Retrieval (Panel Description).