(DBWORLD) Book Announcement

Soon Myoung Chung (schung@valhalla.cs.wright.edu)
Thu, 1 May 1997 09:53:19 -0500 (CDT)

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Multimedia Information Storage and Management

edited by Soon M. Chung
Date of publishing: August 1996
504 pp. Hardbound
ISBN: 0-7923-9764-9
publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers

Tel : 617 871 6600 Tel : +31 78 6392392
Fax : 617 871 6528 Fax : +31 78 6546474
Email: kluwer@wkap.com Email: services@wkap.nl

This book includes 17 chapters focused on the following issues:

- Disk scheduling and storage hierarchy,
- Configuration of multimedia servers and buffer management,
- Delivery scheduling for multimedia streams,
- Supporting user interactions,
- Document modeling and temporal modeling of multimedia data,
- Integrated multimedia information system.

Chapters and Contributors:

1. Disk Scheduling for Continuous Media; D.J. Gemmell.

2. Placement of Continuous Media in Multi-Zone Disks; S. Ghandeharizadeh,
et al.

3. Storage Hierarchy in Multimedia Servers; Y.N. Doganata, A.N. Tantawi.

4. The Use of Media Characteristics and User Behavior for the Design of
Multimedia Servers; D. Venkatesh, T.D.C. Little.

5. The `Fellini' Multimedia Storage Server; A. Silberschatz, et al.

6. Statistical Modeling and Buffer Allocation for MPEG Streams;
R.T. Ng, R. Dilek.

7. Buffer Replacement Algorithms for Multimedia Databases;
A. Silberschatz, et al.

8. Scheduling Issues in Video-on-Demand Systems; P.S. Yu, et al.

9. Delivering Hypermedia Sessions from a Continuous Media Server;
C. Gopal, J.F. Buford.

10. Delivery Scheduling of Multimedia Streams Using Query Scripts;
S.T. Campbell, S.M. Chung.

11. Session Scheduling and Resource Sharing in Multimedia Systems;
A. Dan, D. Sitaram.

12. Improving the Interactive Responsiveness in a Video Server;
A.L.N. Reddy.

13. Modeling and Transformation of Multimedia Data;
Chi-Cheng Lin, Shi-Kuo Chang.

14. Architecture and Storage Model for Multimedia Documents;
A. Karmouch, et al.

15. Temporal Modeling and Intermedia Synchronization for Presentation of
Multimedia Streams; Hui-Jung Chang, Shi-Kuo Chang.

16. Integrated Database Services for Multimedia Presentations;
W. Klas, et al.

17. The Object-Oriented Development of Multimedia Information Systems;
G. Gannod, B.H.C. Cheng.

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