Multimedia Database Management Systems (MMDBMS) have to efficiently provide the specific functionalities required by time-dependent multimedia data types. During presentation play...
Software transactional memory (STM) offers a disciplined concurrent programming model for exploiting the parallelism of modern processor architectures. This paper presents the firs...
: We describe QoSDREAM, a middleware framework for the construction and management of context-aware multimedia applications. The contributions of QoSDREAM include (1) a novel appro...
— Annotation of multimedia content with metadata is regarded as a key issue for efficiently handling such content. MPEG-7 is a major standard that has been developed for this rea...
George Valkanas, Vassileios Tsetsos, Stathes Hadji...
To generate multimedia explanations, a system must be able to coordinate the use of different media in a single explanation. In this paper, we present an architecture that we have...