EuroIMSA 2005: Grindelwald, Switzerland
M. H. Hamza (Ed.): Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, EuroIMSA 2005, Grindelwald, Switzerland, February 21-23, 2005. IASTED/ACTA Press 2005 ISBN 0-88986-486-1
Collaborative Systems and Distance Learning
Takehiro Morino, Daiki Osafune, Takayuki Itano, Katsuhiko Shirai, Makoto Murakami: Construction of the Walking Motion Model for Animated Characters' Motion. 1-6
Takahiro Sagara, Daisaku Souma, Nami K. Takai, Yoshiaki Takai: A Virtual Conference Room by using Vizserver. 13-17
Denis Gillet: Web-based Experimentation in Flexible Education: Technological Challenges and Deployment Methodologies. 25-30
Jean-Michel Cauvin, Clara Le Guillou, Basel Solaiman: An Intelligent Web Atlas in Digestive Endoscopy. 31-34
Hisanori Masuda, Atsumi Imamiya, Gen Kitagata, Takuo Suganuma, Kentaro Go, Norio Shiratori: Effects of Encoding Bit Rates on User Level QoS for Video Streaming. 41-46
Thomas W. Parsons, Thomas W. Jackson, Ray Dawson: Conceptualising User Strategies within Collaborative Learning. 47-52
Web and Internet Systems and Tools
Peiya Liu: Automating the Authoring of Industrial Product Training Manuals. 53-58
Evgenia Daskalova, Mika Ilvesmäki, Raimo Kantola: Analysis of Flow Inter-Arrival Time Distributions. 59-64

Keita Matsuyama, Nobuo Saito: Two-Phased XML Content Adaptation for Appropriate Handling of User Context. 77-82
Jaakko Kangasharju, Tancred Lindholm: A Sequence-based Type-Aware Interface for XML Processing. 83-88
Peter Backx, Bruno Van Den Bossche, Bart Dhoedt, Piet Demeester: AADD: Autonomic Adaptive Distributed Deployment of Component-based Services. 89-94

Mei-Leng Yau, Hai-Shuan Lam, G. S. V. R. Krishna Rao, C. Eswaran: Effect of Hyper-Threading Technology on Java Virtual Machines: A Performance Study. 107-112
Hanmin Jung, Choong-Nyoung Seon, Joo-Chan Sohn, Won-Kyung Sung, Dong-In Park: User's Query Analysis for an Intelligent Web-based Robot Service. 119-124
Andrei Voinikonis: A Generic Data Model and a Supporting Server Architecture for the Mobile Memory Aid System. 125-130
Ruhsan Onder, Zeki Bayram: Interpreting Imperative Programming Languages in Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). 131-136
Networks and Communication Systems
Hesham El-Sayed, M. Ahmed, Muhammad Jaseemuddin, D. Petriu: A Framework for Performance Characterization and Enhancement of the OSPF Routing Protocol. 137-142
Adeniyi A. Akintola, G. Adesola Aderounmu, L. A. Akanbi, Michael O. Adigun: Modeling and Performance Analysis of Dynamic Random Early Detection (DRED) Gateway for Congestion Avoidance. 143-151
Pablo López-Matencio, Fernando Cerdán, Sergio Almagro: TSIGHTS: An Implementation of a Low Cost Solution for Traffic Service Management. 152-157
Piboonlit Viriyaphol, Chanintorn Jittawiriyanukoon: Evaluation of Routing Techniques Over IP-based Networks. 158-162
Roberto García, Víctor G. García, Xabiel G. Pañeda, David Melendi, Jesús Pérez: Fiber Broadband Access Networks: Workload Characterization, Modelling and Validation. 163-168
Andrzej Glowacz, Lucjan Janowski: The Self-Similarity of Bandwidth Estimation-based Transport Protocol. 169-173
Andrzej Glowacz: On TCP Westwood Bandwidth Estimation with Reordered Segments. 174-178
Manoj K. Panda, S. H. Srinivasan: Simplified Queue Dynamics with Mixed Traffic for Congestion Control at Routers. 179-184
Ying-Wen Bai, Hung-Long Wang: The Simulation of the Bit Error Rate for ATM Multimedia Network Over Satellite by using Turbo Code. 185-190
Hui Tian, Fang Xie, Ning Yang, Ping Zhang: Channel Adaptive Routing Algorithm in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 197-201
Maria-Dolores Cano, Fernando Cerdán, Pablo López-Matencio: Experimental Study of Bandwidth Assurance in a DiffServ Network. 202-208
Vincenzo Eramo, Marco Listanti, Nicola Caione, Igor Russo, Giuseppe Gasparro: Routing Performance of a Router based on PC Hardware and Open Source Software. 209-214
Serban Jora, Rittwik Jana, Yih-Farn Chen, Matti A. Hiltunen, Trevor Jim, Huale Huang, King Ow, Ashish K. Singh, Radhakrishnan Muthumanickam: An Alerting and Notification Service on the AT&T Enterprise Messaging Network. 215-220
Streaming and Distributed Systems
Yuka Kato, Katsuya Hakozaki, DongMei Jiang: A Streaming Video System using Adaptive QoS Control Rules. 221-226
Christian Spielvogel, László Böszörményi: Measurement and Prediction of Network Characteristics for Adaptive Video Servers. 227-233
Shinsuke Suetsugu, Naoki Wakamiya, Masayuki Murata, Koichi Konishi, Kunihiro Taniguchi: A Hybrid Video Streaming Scheme on Hierarchical P2P Networks. 240-245
Xiaozhen Cao, Guangwei Bai, Carey L. Williamson: Media Streaming Performance in a Portable Wireless Classroom Network. 246-252
Copyright, Watermarking, and Security
Chee Kiang Heng, Sabu Emmanuel: A Finite State Transition-based Fragile Watermarking Scheme for JPEG-2000 Compressed Images. 253-258
Mohammad Sayad Haghighi, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami: Towards Energy Optimization of Transparent Watermarks using Entropy Masking. 259-264
Mohammad Sayad Haghighi, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami: An Optimal SVD-based Watermarking Framework through Linear Programming. 271-274
Mikael Andersson, Jianhua Cao, Maria Kihl, Christian Nyberg: Admission Control with Service Level Agreements for a Web Server. 275-280
Aijaz Ahmed, Mario Garcia: Signature-based Network Intrusion Detection System using JESS (SNIDJ). 281-286
Multimedia Information Systems and Applications I
Dongsheng Yin, Yuheng Liu, Fengpei Zhang, GuangZhao Zhang: A New TCP-Friendly Congestion Control Protocol for Layered Multicast. 287-292
Habib Talhami, Ibrahim Kamel: Identifying Semantically Similar Arabic Words using a Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System. 293-298
Stuart K. Marks, Ruben Gonzalez: Techniques for Improving the Accuracy of Sinusoidal Tracking. 299-304
Marco Furini: Multimedia Contents within MP3 Files: From Simple Audio Track to a Media Rich Product. 305-310
Takefumi Ogawa, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio: Virtual Space Broadcasting based on the Speed of Avatar Movement. 311-317

Holger Crysandt: Advance Nearest Neighbor Classification. 331-335
Bassem Haidar, Philippe Joly, Siba Haidar: A Graph based Approach to Automatically Chain Distributed Multimedia Indexing Services. 336-342
Robbie De Sutter, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Rik Van de Walle: Multimedia Metadata Processing: A Format Independent Approach. 343-348
Richard Y. D. Xu, John G. Allen, Jesse S. Jin: Framework for Multimedia Lecture System using Real-Time Video Object Event Detection and Scripting. 349-352
Multimedia Information Systems and Applications II
Darshan Gujjar, Amit Thawani, Srividya Gopalan, V. Sridhar: An Efficient Event Management System for Distributed Multimedia Services. 353-358
Javier Martínez, Carlos E. Palau, Manuel Esteve, Benjamín Molina: A Novel Multimedia System for Traffic Remote Controlling. 359-363
Adrian J. Cahill, Cormac J. Sreenan: An Efficient CDN Placement Algorithm for High-Quality TV Content. 364-369
Ying-Wen Bai, Yung-Sung Huang: Design and Implementation of a Mobile Medical Information System. 377-382
Frank Seifert: Prediction-Driven Correlation of Audio with Generic Music Templates. 383-388
Nalin Sharda, Nayanathara Hosur Ramesh: Task Modeling for a Multimedia Authoring System based on the Movement Oriented Design Methodology. 389-394
Elena Vildjiounaite, Anna Sachinopoulou, Janne Lahti, Henri Löthman, Sari Järvinen, Paavo Pietarila: Personalization in Content-based Retrieval of Home Videos. 401-406
Nikunj Patel, Padmavathi Mundur: An N-gram based Approach for Finding the Repeating Patterns in Musical Data. 407-412
Online Gaming and Internet Applications




G. S. V. R. Krishna Rao, G. Radhamani, K. K. Lim, Joseph Yeong: Design and Development of a New Middleware Platform for Mobile Applications. 434-437
Data Management, Image and Information Retrieval
Rachid Sammouda, Mohamed Sammouda, Jamal Abu Hassan: Accurate Extraction Algorithm of Lung Regions from Chest 3D CT-Images. 438-444
Zaher Al Aghbari, Ruba O. Al-Haj: Hill-Manipulation: An Effective Algorithm for Color Image Segmentation. 445-450
Giuseppe Boccignone, Angelo Chianese, Vincenzo Moscato, Antonio Picariello: Animate System for Query by Example in Image Databases. 451-456
Cheng-Yao Chen, Richard Ribier, Shih-Ping Liou: Automatic Poster Summarization for Microsoft PowepointTM Presentation. 457-462
Madalina Rusu, Augustin Prodan: A Web-based Drug Information Centre for Health Care Professionals. 463-466
Senjuti Basu Roy, Kausik Kayal, Java Sil: Edge Preserving Image Compression Technique using Adaptive Feed Forward Neural Network. 467-471
Gwangwon Kang, Youngeun An, Young Chul Choung, Sung Kwan Kang, Jong-An Park: Design of a Multimedia Data Management System Base on the Web. 472-475
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With: Matching Pursuit Dictionary Pruning for MPEG-4 Video Object Coding. 476-481
Video-on-Demand, Virtual Reality, and Speech Recognition
Xabiel G. Pañeda, David Melendi, Roberto García, Víctor G. García, Jesús Pérez: Workload Analysis of a Video-on-Demand Service with a Wide Range of Subjects and Lengths. 486-491
Péter Kárpáti, András Kocsor, László Böszörményi: Client Behaviour Prediction in a Proactive Video Server. 492-497
Sergio Herrería-Alonso, Pablo Jesús Argibay-Losada, Miguel Rodríguez-Pérez, Andrés Suárez-González: Aggregate Congestion Control for Video-on-Demand Traffic Transmission. 498-503
Miguel Rodríguez-Pérez, Pablo Jesús Argibay-Losada, Sergio Herrería-Alonso, Manuel Fernández-Veiga: Assisting Video on Demand Systems with Congestion Control Techniques: A Case Study. 504-509
Franco Chiaraluce, Ennio Gambi, Susanna Spinsante: Performance Evaluation in H.264/AVC Video Coding: The Role of the Parameters Affecting Motion Estimation. 510-515
Chang-Tsun Li: Unsupervised Image Segmentation using Gibbs Sampler within a Multiresolution Framework. 516-520
F. Berger, Horst Hörtner, Christopher Lindinger, Pascal Maresch, Reinhold Plösch, Gustav Pomberger, Robert Praxmarer, W. Ziegler: ARSBOX and Palmist - Technologies for Digital Mock-up Development in Immersive Virtual Environments. 521-526
Eugene Ch'ng, Robert J. Stone, Theodoros N. Arvanitis: A Virtual Reality Archaeological Framework for the Investigation and Interpretation of Ancient Landscapes. 527-532
Soundararajan Ezekiel, William Oblitey, Robert Trimble: Hearing Aid Speech Enhancement: A Multiresolution Analysis Approach. 533-537



