10. MIS 2004: College Park, MD, USA

Invited Papers

• Larry Davis: Monitoring Human Activity using Computer Vision. 1-1
• Antonio Picariello: STORY: Architecture of a System to Create Stories about Pompell and other Applications. 2-13
• Ivor Knight: Biological Sensor Management for Homeland Defense Applications. 14-19

Contributed Papers

Multimedia and sensors

• Hideyuki Kawashima, Michita Imai, Motomichi Toyama, Yuichiro Anzai: Improving Freshness of Sensor Data on KRAFT Sensor Database System. 20-29
• K. Selçuk Candan, Lina Peng, Kyung Dong Ryu, Karam S. Chatha, Christopher B. Mayer: Efficient Stream Routing in Quality- and Resource-Adaptive Flow Architectures. 30-39

Mobile/Wireless information access

• Ashkan Aazami, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Tooraj Helmi: Near Optimal Number of Replicas for Continuous Media in Ad-hoc Networks of Wireless Devices. 40-49
• K. Selçuk Candan, Nikhil Iyer: Server Replication in Interactive, Push-Based Data Delivery Networks. 50-59
• Fabio A. Schreiber, Augusto Celentano, Letizia Tanca: Requirements for Context-Dependent Mobile Access to Information Services. 60-65

Efficient querying

• Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Vincent Oria, M. Tamer Özsu: Integrating the Results of Multimedia Sub-Queries Using Qualitative Preferences. 66-75
• Marat Fayzullin, V. S. Subrahmanian: Optimizing Selection and Mixing in Audio Databases. 76-85
• Ryosuke Miyoshi, Takao Miura, Isamu Shioya: Querying Spatial Data on Extensible Grid Files. 86-