General Chair Message
Plenary Session
Friday, October 13, Venice (HVAR: 09.15 - 10.45)
A
Framework for Advanced Content Description and Meta-data Handling
Boris
Rogge, Rik Van de Walle, Steven Van Assche,
Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu, Ghent University, Belgium
"Multimedia
Contents Mill" - A Platform of Authoring and Delivery of Interactive Multimedia
Contents
Yoshitsugu Tsuchiya, Wataru Takita, NTT
Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, Japan; Olaf Kath, Frank
Stoinski, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Flexible Virtual Worlds
Authoring using Media Library and Database Extensions to VRML
Maja Matijasevic, Dario Mikic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Visualization
of Software by Means of the Example World Wide Web (WWW)
Gerrit Kalkbrenner, Berkeley University, USA; Klaus Rebensburg,
Technical University Berlin, Germany
Improving
UVOD System Efficiency with Batching
Vincent C. H. Lee, Jack Y. B. Lee,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Scalable VoD Server
Laurent George, University of Paris, France; Dana Marinca,
Paris Engineering Academy of Computer Science, France; Pascale Minet,
INRIA, France
A Framework to Overcome Physical Constraints
of Small Screen Appliances in Ubiquitous Computing
Georg J. Schneider, Thai-Lai Pham,
Safia Djennane, Siemens, USA
A
New Dimension in Multimedia Distribution over Satellite and Terrestrial Telecommunication
Systems
Antonio Campa, Mario De Blasi, Francesco
Tommasi, University of Lecce, Italy
Synchronization Mechanism using Multiple-lock
Checking Algorithm in Shared Virtual Environment with Haptic Force Feedback
Control
O. Wongwirat, I. Burintramart, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology,
Thailand; A. Walairacht, Tokai University, Japan; N. Chotikakamthorn,
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Thailand; S. Ohara, Tokai University,
Japan