Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, January 1999

Peiya Liu, Arif Ghafoor: Multimedia Document Systems in Perspectives: Guest Editorial Note. 5-10
Liang H. Hsu, Peiya Liu, Tim Dawidowsky: A Multimedia Authoring-in-the-Large Environment to Support Complex Product Documentation. 11-64
Klemens Böhm, Karl Aberer, Wolfgang Klas: Building a Hybrid Database Application for Structured Documents. 65-90
Husni Fahmi, Shahab Baqai, Ahmed R. Bashandy, Arif Ghafoor: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Multimedia Document Retrieval over High Speed LANs. 91-114
David W. Cooper: Document Scripting with Open Standards: Transport of Application Behavior for Interactive Technical Documents. 115-136
Benjamin Falchuk, Ahmed Karmouch: The Mobile Agent Paradigm Meets Digital Document Technology: Designing for Autonomous Media Collection. 137-166

Wynne Hsu, Teik Guan Tan: Rapid Prototyping with Constraints-based Scheduling for Multimedia Applications. 175-195
Giancarlo Iannizzotto, Antonio Puliafito, Lorenzo Vita: Using the Median Distance to Compare Object Shapes in Content-Based Image Retrieval. 197-217
Ing-Jye Shyu, Shiuh-Pyng Shieh: A Distributed Fault-Tolerant Design for Multiple-Server VOD Systems. 219-247
Youjip Won, Jaideep Srivastava: Strategic Replication of Video Files in a Distributed Environment. 249-283

Ana Carolina Salgado, Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira Duarte: Guest Editorial. 289-291
Fernando Lyardet, Gustavo Rossi, Daniel Schwabe: Discovering and Using Design Patterns in the WWW. 293-308
Marcelo Augusto Santos Turine, Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira, Paulo Cesar Masiero: HySCharts: A Statechart-Based Environment for Hyperdocument Authoring and Browsing. 309-324
Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Guido Lemos de Souza Filho, Rogério Ferreira Rodrigues, Débora C. Muchaluat: Versioning Support in the HyperProp System. 325-339
Marcos André Gonçalves, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros: Constructing Geographic Digital Libraries using a Hypermedia Framework. 341-356
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Maria Janilce B. Almeida, Roberto Willrich: MUSE: An Environment for the Conception of Java Multimedia Applications. 357-370
Roberto De A. Façanha, Nelson L. S. Da Fonseca, Pedro Jussieu de Rezende: The S2 Piggybacking Policy. 371-383