Advances in Multimedia Information Systems: 4th International Workshop, MIS’98 Istanbul, Turkey September 24–26, 1998 Proceedings Author: Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-65107-9 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49651-3 Table of Contents: Quality of Service Support for Multimedia Data on Internet Heterogeneous Data Integration with Mobile Information Managers A Scalable Video-on-Demand Server for a Dynamic Heterogeneous Environment Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for Video-on-Demand Deciding Round Length and Striping Unit Size for Multimedia Servers Management and Rendering of Multimedia Views NETCICATS: Network-Conscious Image Compression and Transmission System ABR Service in ATM Networks: Performance Comparison Between BECN and Adaptive Stochastic Congestion Control Schemes with Guaranteed Minimum Cell Rate An Admission Control Framework for Applications with Variable Consumption Rates in Client-Pull Architectures Accurate Modelling of VBR Coded Video Sources in ATM Networks Retrieving Images by Content: The Surfimage System Weakly Constraining Multimedia Types Based on a Type Embedding Ordering Balancing Workload and Communication Cost for a Distributed Virtual Environment Network Visualization of Heterogeneous US Army War Reserve Readiness Data A Museum-Oriented Authoring Tool Modeling and Retrieving Audiovisual Information - A Soccer Video Retrieval System A Flexible Architecture for the Integration of Media Servers and Databases Sketch- Based Images Database Retrieval An Integrated Data Model and a Query Language for Content- Based Retrieval of Video Virtual Reality for Image Retrieval