IW-MMDBMS 1996: Blue Mountain Lake, New York, USA

Multimedia in Data Storage and Display

• Edward Y. Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina: Reducing Initial Latency in a Multimedia Storage System. 2-11
• Youjip Won, Jaideep Srivastava: Minimizing Blocking Probability in a Hierarchical Storage Based VOD Server. 12-19
• Martha Escobar-Molano, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh: Resource Scheduling for Coordinated Display of Structured Presentations Using a Multi-Disk Architecture (Extended Abstract). 20-27
• Veli Hakkoymaz, Gultekin Özsoyoglu: Automating the Organization of Presentations for Playout Management in Multimedia Databases. 28-36

Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval

• Zhi-Jie Zheng, Clement H. C. Leung: Automatic Image Indexing for Rapid Content-based Retrieval. 38-45
• Ta-Chun Chou, Arbee L. P. Chen, Chih-Chin Liu: Music Databases: Indexing Techniques and Implementation. 46-53
• Ibrahim Kamel, Daniel Barbará: Retrieving Electronic Ink by Content. 54-61

Multimedia Databases

• Chabane Djeraba, Karima Hadouda, Henri Briand: Management Of Multimedia Scenarios In An Object-Oriented Database System. 64-71
• Paul Pazandak, Jaideep Srivastava: Metrics for Evaluating ODBMSs Functionality to Support MMDBMS. 72-79
• Krzysztof Walczak: Integration of Virtual Reality and Multimedia Data in Databases. 80-84
• Edward Remias, Gholamhosein Sheikholeslami, Aidong Zhang: Block-Oriented Image Decomposition and Retrieval in Image Database Systems. 85-92

Video Data Management

• Renato Pajarola, Peter Widmayer: Spatial Indexing into Compressed Raster Images: How to Answer Range Queries Without Decompression. 94-100
• Tony C. T. Kuo, Yi-Bing Lin, Arbee L. P. Chen, Shu-Chin Chen, C. Y. Ni: Efficient Shot Change Detection on Compressed Video Data. 101-108
• Miron Livny, Viresh Ratnakar: Quality-Controlled Compression of Sets of Images. 109-114
• Donald A. Adjeroh, Moon-Chuen Lee, Cyril U. Orji: A Principled Approach To Fast Partitioning of Uncompressed Video. 115-112

Hypermedia/Object-Oriented Databases

• John Z. Li, M. Tamer Özsu, Duane Szafron: Modeling of Video Spatial Relationships in an Object Oriented Database Management System. 124-132
• Kyuchul Lee, Yong Kyu Lee, Seong-Joon Yoo, Kyoungro Yoon, P. Bruce Berra: Object-Oriented Modeling, Querying, and Indexing for Multi-structured Hypermedia Document Database. 133-140
• Thomas Prückler, Michael Schrefl: Achieving Physical Data Independence in Hypermedia Databases. 141-150

Distributed Multimedia Systems

• Heiko Thimm, Wolfgang Klas, Jonathan Walpole, Calton Pu, Crispin Cowan: Managing Adaptive Presentation Executions in Distributed Multimedia Database Systems. 152-159
• Sreenivas Gollapudi, Aidong Zhang: NetMedia: A Client-Server Distributed Multimedia Environment. 160-167
• Ya Xu, Donald A. Adjeroh, Cyril U. Orji: Fault Avoidance and Recovery for Distributed Multimedia Multicast. 168-174