Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services

Heidi-II: A software architecture for ATM network based distributed multimedia systems.- Multimedia architecture to support requirements analysis.- MHEG 5 - Standardized presentation objects for the Set Top Unit environment.- GLASS-Studio: An open authoring environment for distributed multimedia applications.- Television information filtering through speech recognition.- Event and action representation and composition for multimedia application scenario modelling.- Interactive video and remote control via the World Wide Web.- Radio on demand.- Design of an immersive teleconferencing application.- The secure conferencing user agent A tool to provide secure conferencing with Mbone multimedia conferencing applications.- Personal mobility for multimedia services in the Internet.- A security architecture for Tenet Scheme 2.- Features of the ACCOPI multimedia transport service.- Video communication and media scaling system "Xnetvideo": Design and implementation.- Scheduling mechanisms reducing contention situations in multimedia systems.- QoS filters: Addressing the heterogeneity gap.- Deterministic admission control strategies in video servers with variable bit rate streams.- A control system for an interactive Video on Demand server handling variable data rates.- A synchronization scheme for stored multimedia streams.- An architecture for a distributed stream synchronization service.- Comenius - The virtual classroom.