Technology has spurred the growth of huge image and video libraries, many growing into
the hundreds of terabytes. As a result there is a great demand among organizations for the …

High-speed networks and powerful end-systems enable new types of applications, such as
video-on-demand and teleconferencing. Such applications are very demanding on quality of …

In this paper we examine modeling and metamodeling for metadata. We illustrate the need
of metamodeling through three examples where metadata sets are used to efficiently …

Over the last few years, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of interactive
multimedia presentations prepared by different individuals and organizations. In this paper …

Distributed multimedia (MM) applications such as video-on-demand and teleconferencing
provide services with different quality of service (QoS) requirements. Hence, the user should …

Most work related to quality of service (QoS) is concerned with individual system
components, such as the operating system or the network. However, to support distributed …

We describe the design of an object-oriented multimedia database management system that
can store and manage SGML/HyTime compliant multimedia documents. The system is …

Access to multimedia servers is commonly done according to a client/server model where
the end user at the client host retrieves multimedia objects from a multimedia server. In a …

Recent research in federated database systems has advanced in the direction of federations
of multimedia databases. However, in each project studied, there has been little emphasis …

The Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) was founded in 1990 to facilitate the transfer of
research ideas into products. This essay describes the original goals of CAS, how they have …