The recent enormous increase in the availability of mobile devices such as phones, PDAs, webpads, tablet PCs etc. and with it the corresponding demand for interactive multimedia a...
Multimedia object caching, by which the same multimedia object can be adapted to diverse mobile appliances through the technique of transcoding, is an important technology for imp...
A web service is a programmable web application accessible using standard Internet protocols. A threelayer architecture has been suggested for web services: service providers, ser...
Multimedia information systems are based on the evolving capability of computers to handle diverse types of information. Their most important characteristic is the integration of ...
Much research has been devoted to the study of exclusively distance-learning paradigms for teaching various technological subjects, yet many students have not been satisfied with ...