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
A 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