Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services

Invited Presentation.- Energy-Efficient Hand-Held Multimedia Systems - Designing the Swiss Army Knife of Computing -.- Efficient Audio/Video Coding and Delivery.- Realisation of an Adaptive Audio Tool.- A Robust JPEG Coder for a Partially Reliable Transport Service.- A Dynamic RAM Cache for High Quality Distributed Video.- Multimedia Conferencing, Synchronization and Multicast.- Fast and Optimal Multicast-Server Selection Based on Receivers' Preference.- Mcast: A Multicast Multimedia Communication Software Development Platform.- Enforcing Multipoint Multimedia Synchronisation in Videoconferencing Applications.- Communication, Control and Telephony over IP Networks.- Utility Based Inter-stream Adaptation of Layered Streams in a Multiple-Flow IP Session.- An Interaction Control Architecture for Large Chairperson-Controlled Conferences over the Internet.- Using DMIF for Abstracting from IP-Telephony Signaling Protocols.- Invited Presentation.- Short-Range Connectivity with Bluetooth.- QoS Models and Architectures.- A QoS-Control Architecture for Object Middleware.- An Architecture for a Scalable Video-on-Demand Server Network with Quality-of-Service Guarantees.- Augmented Reliable Multicast CORBA Event Service (ARMS): A QoS-Adaptive Middleware.- Middleware Support for Media Streaming Establishment Driven by User-Oriented QoS Requirements.- Multimedia Applications and User Aspects.- Interaction of Video on Demand Systems with Human-Like Avatars and Hypermedia.- How to Make a Digital Whiteboard Secure-Using JAVA-Cards for Multimedia Applications.- How to Keep a Dead Man from Shooting.- Building Web Resources for Natural Scientists.- Invited Presentation.- On the Failure of Middleware to Support Multimedia Applications.- Design and Implementation Approaches.- JASMINE: Java Application Sharing in Multiuser INteractive Environments.- Design and Implementation of a Framework for Monitoring Distributed Component Interactions.- Specification and Implementation of an Extensible