Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 13

Volume 13, Number 1, January 2001

Babak Hamidzadeh, Tsun-Ping J. To: Prioritized Admission Strategies to Improve User-Perceived Performance in Interactive VOD Servers. 5-34
Mohammad Nabil, Anne H. H. Ngu, John Shepherd: Modeling and Retrieval of Moving Objects. 35-71
Jia Wang, Wen-jann Yang, Raj Acharya: Color Space Quantization for Color-Content-Based Query Systems. 73-91
Carlo Colombo, Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala: Retrieval of Commercials by Semantic Content: The Semiotic Perspective. 93-118

Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori: Modeling MPEG Scalable Sources. 127-145
Zheng Cui, Ahmed Karmouch, Roger Impey, Tom Gray: Approaching Secure Communications in a Message-Oriented Mobile Computing Environment. 147-163
Jolon Faichney, Ruben Gonzalez: Video Coding for Mobile Handheld Conferencing. 165-176
Keun-Hyung Kim, Seog Park: Storage System for Supporting More Video Streams in Video Server. 177-196
Wonjun Lee, Jaideep Srivastava: An Algebraic QoS-Based Resource Allocation Model for Competitive Multimedia Applications. 197-212
Chow-Sing Lin, Min-You Wu, Wei Shu: Efficient Algorithms for Slot-Scheduling and Cycle-Scheduling of Video Streams on Clustered Video Servers. 213-227

Chih-Chin Liu, Jia-Lien Hsu, Arbee L. P. Chen: Efficient Near Neighbor Searching Using Multi-Indexes for Content-Based Multimedia Data Retrieval. 235-254
Joshua S. Wachman, Rosalind W. Picard: Tools for Browsing a TV Situation Comedy Based on Content Specific Attributes. 255-284
Andreas Mauthe, Francisco Garcia, David Hutchison, Nicholas J. Yeadon: QoS Filtering and Resource Reservation in an Internet Environment. 285-306
Juan Carlos Guerri, Manuel Esteve, Carlos E. Palau, Vicente Casares Giner: Feedback Flow Control with Hysteresial Techniques for Multimedia Retrievals. 307-332