1. ICMCS 1994: Boston, Massachusetts

Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, May 14-19, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts. IEEE-CS 1994, ISBN 0-8186-5530-5

Scheduling and Synchronization

Louise Lamont, Nicolas D. Georganas: Synchronization Architecture and Protocols for a Multimedia News Service Applications. 3-8
Mark Claypool, John Riedl: Silence Is Golden? - The Effects of Selence Deletion on the CPU Load of an Audio Conference. 9-18
Deepak R. Kenchammana-Hosekote, Jaideep Srivastava: Scheduling Continuous Media in a Video-On-Demand Server. 19-28

Synthetic Information and Video Generation

Warren Sack, Marc Davis: IDIC: Assembling Video Sequences from Story Plans and Content Annotations. 30-36
Joseph E. Berger, Loan T. Dinh, Michael F. Masiello, Jesse N. Schell: NVR: A System for Networked Virtual Reality. 37-44
HongJiang Zhang, Yihong Gong, Stephen W. Smoliar, Shuang Yeo Tan: Automatic Parsing of News Video. 45-54

Networking I

Soumen Chakrabarti, Randolph Y. Wang: Adaptive Control for Packet Video. 56-62
Stefan Kätker, Martin Paterok, Carsten Vogt, Hartmut Wittig, Luca Delgrossi: An SNMP MIB for the ST-II Protocol. 63-75
Joel F. Adam, Henry H. Houh, Michael Ismert, David L. Tennenhouse: A Network Architecture for Distributed Multimedia Systems. 76-85

Panel I

Roger B. Dannenberg, Antonio Camurri: Panel I - Computer-Generated Music and Multimedia Computing. 87-88

Operating Systems I

Clifford W. Mercer, Stefan Savage, Hideyuki Tokuda: Processor Capacity Reserves: Operating System Support for Multimedia Applications. 90-99
Kevin R. Fall, Joseph Pasquale: Improving Continuous-Media Playback Performance with In-Kernel Data Paths. 100-109
Mitsutoshi Iino, Young Francis Day, Arif Ghafoor: An Object-Oriented Model for Spatio-Temporal Synchronization of Multimedia Information. 110-119

Content-Based Retrieval

Yihong Gong, HongJiang Zhang, H. C. Chuan, Masao Sakauchi: An Image Database System with Contents Capturing and Fast Image Indexing Abilities. 121-130
Atsuo Yoshitaka, Setsuko Kishida, Masahito Hirakawa, Tadao Ichikawa: Knowledge-Assisted Context-Based Retrieval for Multimedia Databases. 131-139
Ron Weiss, Andrzej Duda, David K. Gifford: Content-Based Access to Algebraic Video. 140-151

Distributed Systems

John Bates, Jean Bacon: A Development Platform for Multimedia Applications in a Distributed, ATM Network Environment. 154-163
L. Besse, Laurent Dairaine, Linda Fedaoui, Wassim Tawbi, K. Thai: Towards an Architecture for Distributed Multimedia Applications Support. 164-172
Jean-Pierre Courtiat, Luiz F. Rust da Costa Carmo, Roberto C. de Oliveira: A New Mechanism for Achieving Inter-stream Synchronization in Multimedia Communication Systems. 173-182

Capture and Creation of Content I

Ivan Herman, Graham J. Reynolds: MADE: A Multimedia Application Development Environment. 184-193
Barry J. Hudson: Experiences From Production of a Cross-Platform Multimedia CD. 194-202
Peiya Liu, Ken Hampel, Arding Hsu: Towards Automating the Creation of Hypermedia Service Manuals by Compiling Specifications. 203-212

Operating Systems II

Christos H. Papadimitriou, Srinivas Ramanathan, P. Venkat Rangan: Information Caching for Delivery of Personalized Video Programs on Home Entertainment Channels. 214-223
Dean Rubine, Roger B. Dannenberg, David B. Anderson, Thomas P. Neuendorffer: Low-Latency Interaction through Choice-Points, Buffering, and Cuts in Tactus. 224-233
Harrick M. Vin, Alok Goyal, Anshuman Goyal, Pawan Goyal: An Observation-Based Admission Control Algorithm for Multimedia Servers. 234-243

Collaboration and Distributed Video

T. M. Wittenburg, Thomas D. C. Little: An Adaptive Document Management System for Shared Multimedia Data. 245-254
Lutz Kleinholz, Martin Ohly: Multimedia Medical Conferencing: Design and Experience in the BERMED Project. 255-264
Stuart Wray, Tim Glauert, Andy Hopper: The Medusa Applications Environment. 265-273

Networking

Mark Baugher, Victoria L. Humphrey: OS/2 LAN Server Ultimedia Performance on the Token-Ring. 275-284
Andrew S. Lunn, A. C. Scott, Doug Shepherd, Nicholas J. Yeadon: A Mini-Cell Architecture for Networked Multimedia Workstations. 285-294
Hui Zhang, Domenico Ferrari: Improving Utilization for Deterministic Service In Multimedia Communication. 295-304

Multimedia E-Mail

Marcel P. P. Baveco, Gert H. Kruithof, L. J. Teunissen: The Flexibility of MultiMedia Mail: from Abstract Architecture towards Implementation. 306-314
Ming Ouhyoung, Wen-Chin Chen, Yuong-Wei Lei, Keh-Ning Chang, Ching-Lun Liang, Shwu-Fen Wang, Yung-Huei Yan, Jiann-Rong Wu, Herng-Yow Chen, Nien-Bao Liu, Yin-Lai Wang, Tzong-Yin Hwu, Wei-Ming Su, Rung-Huei Liang, Kuo-Chang Fu, Yah Chen, Tzong-Jer Yang: The MOS Multimedia E-Mail System. 315-324
Sanjiv P. Patel, Grant Henderson, Nicolas D. Georganas: Multimedia Fax-MIME Interworking. 325-330

Database and Information Systems

Dan Benson, Arding Hsu, Greg Noll, Karl Rony, Dominique Lamballais: Multimedia Data Management for Process Control. 332-341
Wieland Holfelder, Dietmar Hebmann: A Networked Multimedia Retrieval Management System for Distributed Kiosk Applications. 343-351
Karl Aberer, Wolfgang Klas: Supporting Temporal Multimedia Operations in Object-Oriented Database Systems. 352-361

Capture and Creation of Content II

Russell Sasnett, John R. Nicol, Vincent Phuah, Yechezkal-Shimon Gutfreund: Experiences of Developing Distributed Multimedia Business Applications. 363-374
Joaquim Sousa Pinto, H. W. J. Borst Pauwels, Joaquim Arnaldo Martins, Beatriz Sousa Santos: HyDE: A Hypermedia Document Editor Based on OLE Technology. 375-381
Sha Guo, Wei Sun, Yi Deng, Wei Li, Qing Liu, Weiping Zhang: Panther: An Inexpensive and Integrated Multimedia Environment. 382-391

Hardware Architecture

Yurdaer N. Doganata, Asser N. Tantawi: A Cost/Performance Study of Video Servers with Hierarchical Storage. 393-402
Kevin A. Kettler, Jay K. Strosnider: Scheduling Analysis of the Micro Channel Architecture for Multimedia Applications. 403-414
Saied Hosseini-Khayat, Andreas D. Bovopoulos: A Proposed Bus Arbitration Scheme for Multimedia Workstations. 415-423

Programming

John F. Buford, Lloyd Rutledge, John L. Rutledge: Integrating Object-Oriented Scripting Languages with HyTime. 425-434
David L. Tennenhouse, Joel F. Adam, David Carver, Henry H. Houh, Michael Ismert, Christopher Lindblad, William F. Stasior, David Wetherall, David R. Bacher, Theresa Chang: A Software-Oriented Approach to the Design of Media Processing Environments. 435-444
Robert Erfle: HyTime as the Multimedia Document Model of Choice. 445-454

Video Compression and Processing

V. Michael Bove Jr., Brett D. Granger, John A. Watlington: Real-Time Decoding and Display of Structured Video. 456-462
John F. Buford, Chetan B. Gopal: Standardizing a Multimedia Interchange Format: A Comparison of OMFI and MHEG. 463-472
G. Iyengar, Sethuraman Panchanathan: Codec Designs for Image Browsing. 473-481

Poster Session

Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira, A. E. L. Moura: A Scripting Language for Multimedia Presentations. 484-489
Judith S. Donath: Casual Collaboration. 490-495
Charles L. Compton, David L. Tennenhouse: Collaborative Load Shedding for Media-Based Applications. 496-501
A. Krishnamurthy, Thomas D. C. Little: Connection-Oriented Service Renegotiation for Scalable Video Delivery. 502-507
A. Santos: Evaluating Multimedia Availability for Groupware. 508-513
Lynnau Ehley, Borko Furht, Mohammad Ilyas: Evaluation of Multimedia Synchronization techniques. 514-519
Rei Hamakawa, Hidekazu Sakagami, Jun Rekimoto: Mbuild - Multimedia Data Builder with Box and Glue. 520-525
Fabio Bastian, Patrick M. Lenders: Media Synchronisation on Distributed Multimedia Systems. 526-531
Bruce Krulwich, Lucian Hughes, Ed Gottsman, Michael Antonio, Anatole Gershman: Multimedia Consumer Applications on the Information Superhighway. 532-537
Thomas Wahl, Kurt Rothermel: Representing Time in Multimedia Systems. 538-543
Kshirasagar Naik: Specification and Synthesis of a Multimedia Synchronizer. 544-549
Sang Hyuk Son, Nipun Agarwal: Synchronization of Temporal Constructs in Distributed Multimedia Systems with Controlled Accuracy. 550-555
Achim Karduck: TeamBuilder: A Consistently Decentralized Hyper-Information System for Team Formation. 556-561
Navin Chaddha, Avneesh Agrawal, Anoop Gupta, Teresa H. Y. Meng: Variable Compression Using JPEG. 562-569