Interactive distributed multimedia systems and telecommunication services : 5th International Workshop IDMS '98, Oslo, Norway, September 8-11, 1998 : proceedings

ATM, reservation and IP ATM, RIP?.- High speed packet switching and QoS: (A) Guru's perspective.- A secure, accountable, and collaborative whiteboard.- Mobile Guide - Location-Aware applications from the lab to the market.- Interactive protocol simulation applets for distance education.- Visual techniques to accommodate varying network performance in virtual environments.- An address resolution and key exchange protocol for conferencing applications on the Internet.- An integrated platform for cooperative teleteaching.- CCS: CORBA-based conferencing service.- The application of TINA in the Mesh project.- Flexible multiplexing in MPEG-4 systems.- Video encryption based on data partitioning and scalable coding - A comparison.- An architecture for an interactive multimedia system based on MPEG-2.- Classifying objectionable websites based on image content.- Identifying perceptually congruent structures for audio retrieval.- An image coding and reconstruction scheme for mobile computing.- Network-conscious compressed images over wireless networks.- A study of delay factors in CSCW applications and their importance.- Dynamic QoS renegotiation in the PNSVS videoconferencing application.- Towards an ODP-compliant object definition language with QoS-support.- DAVIC goes to internet: Multimedia service interworking over heterogeneous networking environment.- A temporal-spatial flow control protocol for ABR in integrated networks.- A low complexity congestion control algorithm for the ABR class of service.- Protocol for browsing in continuous data for cooperative multi-server and multi-client applications.- Implementation of a DSM-CC-server for a DAVIC-terminal.- A client-server design for interactive multimedia documents based on Java.- Asynchronously replicated shared workspaces for a multi-media annotation service over internet.- Object graphs as a pivotal representation for hypermedia.- A new real-time disk scheduling algorithm and its application to distributed multimedia storage systems.- Continuous data management on tape-based tertiary storage systems.- Exploiting user behaviour in prefetching WWW documents.- Single Pair of Buffers: Reducing memory requirements in VBR media servers.