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ITCC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Timed Petri Net Representation of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) of XML
A multimedia server needs to satisfy the temporal ordering of multimedia data streams when servicing a client. Multimedia data has high bandwidth requirements, and within a networ...
Soon Myoung Chung, Anil L. Pereira
ITCC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On the Effects of Content Compression on Web Cache Performance
Compression is widely used to reduce data transmission costs, but its impact on the performance of network entities such as web caches has not yet been studied. In this paper, we ...
Sadhna Ahuja, Tao Wu, Sudhir S. Dixit
ITCC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Method for Calculating Term Similarity on Large Document Collections
We present an efficient algorithm called the Quadtree Heuristic for identifying a list of similar terms for each unique term in a large document collection. Term similarity is de...
Wolfgang W. Bein, Jeffrey S. Coombs, Kazem Taghva
ITCC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Methodologies for Web Information System Design
The Web information space is rapidly growing in the size and the diversity of both its data and its audience. A consequence is that Web Information Systems (WIS) in many applicati...
Peter Barna, Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, ...
ITCC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Learning Objects Approach to Teaching Programming
The goal of this paper is to describe a new approach to a content creation and delivery mechanism for a programming course. This approach is based on the concept of creating a lar...
Victor Adamchik, Ananda Gunawardena
ITCC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Adapting a Multimedia Distance Learning Environment for Vision Impairments
Distance learning applications provide valuable opportunities to users with disabilities. To enhance the accessibility of the distance-learning portal to vision impaired users, we...
Vidhya Balasubramanian, Nalini Venkatasubramanian