Multimedia/Hypermedia in Open Distributed Environments: Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium in Graz, Austria, June 6–9, 1994 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3211825878 ISBN 13: 9783211825877

Publisher: Springer, 1994

Synopsis

Over the last few years, multimedia hardware and applications have become widely available in the personal computer and workstation environments, and multimedia is rapidly becoming an integral part of stand-alone, single-user sy­ stems. In contrast, the problems encountered when moving to open, distributed environments are only just beginning to be identified. Examples are the trans­ mission of dynamic data (video, sound) over large distances and cooperative work. Following on from two successful workshops on multimedia, EG-MM '94 concentrates on topics related to multimedia/hypermedia in open, distributed environments. The goal of this symposium was not only to give a comprehensive overview of the current state of research, development, and standardisation in the field, but also to provide an opportunity for live demonstrations to experience directly the presented results. The symposium program consists of two invited keynote speeches, eight tech­ .nical sessions, one tutorial, and one demonstration session. A workshop following immediately after the symposium provides an opportunity for in-depth discussi­ ons of open problems among experts. It is intended to fill a gap often experienced at larger meetings and conferences: the lack of time to discuss in detail issues raised during the event, such as the characteristics of different approaches to a certain problem. It is intended that the results of the workshop be published as a Eurographics Technical Report.

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Product Description

Multimedia/Hypermedia in Open Distributed Environments Represents the results from the Eurographic symposium on "Multimedia/Hypermedia in Open Distributed Environments", held on 6-8 June 1994, Graz, Austria. About 20 contributions cover a broad range of problems related to this topic. The presentation standards MHEG and PREMO are presented.

Synopsis

While multimedia applications are rapidly becoming an integral part of stand-alone, single-user systems, the problems encountered when moving into distributed environments are only beginning to be identified. This book represents the results from the Eurographic symposium on "Multimedia/Hypermedia in Open Distributed Environments", held on 6-8 June 1994, Graz, Austria. About 20 contributions cover a broad range of problems related to this topic. Organized in six sessions, the book gives a comprehensive overview about the state-of-the-art in research, development and standardization in the areas of hyper-media (hm) encoding and presentation, distributed multimedia (mm) tele- and information services, mm/hm development and authoring tools, co-operative environments and new architectural concepts. In addition, the future mm/hm encoding and presentation standards MHEG and PREMO are presented. As a result, the reader should profit from this book in getting up-to-date information about the current trends in (the development of) mm/hm services and applications in open, distributed environments.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3211825878
• ISBN 13: 9783211825877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Herzner Wolfgang, Kappe Frank