Multimedia Databases in Perspective, 1997

Requirements for a Multimedia Database

• Henk M. Blanken: Introduction [Requirements for a Multimedia Database]. 3-11
• Wolfgang Klas, Arjen P. de Vries, Christian Breiteneder: Current and Emerging Applications [Requirements for a Multimedia Database]. 13-30
• Wolfgang Klas, Karl Aberer: Multimedia and its Impact on Database System Architectures. 31-61

User Interaction in a Virtual World Environment

• Christian Breiteneder: User Interaction in a Virtual World Environment. 65-83
• Peter M. G. Apers: Searching Distributed Hypermedia. 85-98

Server Components

• Peter Pistor, Henk M. Blanken: The SQL3 Server Interface. 101-116
• Peter A. C. Verkoulen, Henk M. Blanken: The SGML/HyTime Server Interface. 117-143
• Anastasia Analyti, Stavros Christodoulakis: Content-Based Querying. 145-179
• Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania, Elena Ferrari: Query Processing. 181-217
• Christos Faloutsos: Indexing of Multimedia Data. 219-245

Environment

• Tatjana Burkow, Sape J. Mullender: Operating System Support [for Multimedia Databases]. 249-287
• Wolfgang Effelsberg: Communication Support [for Multimedia Databases]. 289-304
• Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Wouter B. Teeuw, Manfred van Gurchom: Critical Success Factors [for Multimedia Databases]. 305-326

List of Authors

Bibliography