Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 22

Volume 22, Number 1, January 2004

Iraklis Varlamis, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Iosif Lazaridis, M. Papageorgiou, Themis Panayiotopoulos:
Distributed Virtual Reality Authoring Interfaces for the WWW: The VR-Shop Case. 5-30
Mónica Pinto, Mercedes Amor, Lidia Fuentes, José M. Troya:
Analyzing Architectural Evolution Issues of Multimedia Frameworks. 31-51
Wei-hsiu Ma, David Hung-Chang Du:
Frame Selection for Dynamic Caching Adjustment in Video Proxy Servers. 53-73
José Hilario Canós Cerdá, Francisco de Zulueta:
Using Hypermedia to Improve Safety in Underground Metropolitan Transportation. 75-87
T. Lu, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan:
An Accumulation Algorithm for Video Shot Boundary Detection. 89-106

Marios C. Angelides:
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on "Mobile Multimedia and Communications and m-Commerce". 115-116
Nicole Karsten-Berier, Martin Karsten, Jens Schmitt, Ralf Steinmetz:
A Modular Approach to Mobile QoS Signaling- Motivation, Design & Implementation. 117-135
Yi Cui, Klara Nahrstedt, Dongyan Xu:
Seamless User-Level Handoff in Ubiquitous Multimedia Service Delivery. 137-170
Anwar M. Haneef, Aura Ganz:
ANMoLe-An Adaptive Multimedia Content Delivery Middleware Architecture for Heterogeneous Mobile Multi-Device Neighborhoods. 171-186
Gheorghita Ghinea, Marios C. Angelides:
A User Perspective of Quality of Service in m-Commerce. 187-206

Kostas Karpouzis, George Moschovitis, Klimis S. Ntalianis, Spiros Ioannou, Stefanos D. Kollias:
Web Access to Large Audiovisual Assets Based on User Preferences. 215-234
Harald Kosch, Ahmed Mostefaoui, László Böszörményi, Lionel Brunie:
Heuristics for Optimizing Multi-Clip Queries in Video Databases. 235-262
Frank Nack, Wolfgang Putz:
Saying What it Means: Semi-Automated (News) Media Annotation. 263-302
Sooyong Kang, Heon Young Yeom:
A New Block Fetching Scheme Considering Traffic Smoothing in Multimedia Servers. 303-328