Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 18

Volume 18, Number 1, September 2002

Scott T. Campbell, Soon Myoung Chung: Scheduling and Optimization of the Delivery of Multimedia Streams Using Query Scripts. 5-30
Simon S. Y. Shim, Tai-Sheng Chang, David Hung-Chang Du, Jenwei Hsieh, Yuewei Wang: Performance of a Scalable Multimedia Server with Shared-Storage Clusters. 31-54
Michael S. Boykin, Taieb Znati: QoS-Aware Fair Queuing: A Low Overhead Packet Scheduling Discipline for Networked Multimedia Environments. 55-83

Francis K. H. Quek, Robert K. Bryll, Cemil Kirbas, Hasan Arslan, David McNeill: A Multimedia System for Temporally Situated Perceptual Psycholinguistic Analysis. 91-114
Patrick Martin, Michel Sim, Zhenjun Zhu, Hussein T. Mouftah: QRTP: A Middleware for Broadband Networks. 115-135
Costas Georgiadis, Peter Triantafillou, Christos Faloutsos: Fundamentals of Scheduling and Performance of Video Tape Libraries. 137-158
Ahmed Mostefaoui, Harald Kosch, Lionel Brunie: Semantic Based Prefetching in News-on-Demand Video Servers. 159-179

Irena Koprinska, Sergio Carrato: Hybrid Rule-Based/Neural Approach for Segmentation of MPEG Compressed Video. 187-212
Nabil Layaïda, Loay Sabry-Ismaïl, Cécile Roisin: Dealing with Uncertain Durations in Synchronized Multimedia Presentations. 213-231
Juan María Sánchez, Xavier Binefa, Jordi Vitrià: Shot Partitioning Based Recognition of TV Commercials. 233-247
Marlon Dumas, Rafael Lozano, Marie-Christine Fauvet, Hervé Martin, Pierre-Claude Scholl: A Sequence-Based Object-Oriented Model for Video Databases. 249-277