Ebook: Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies

Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies is a compendium of the state-of-the-art research and development work pertaining to the problems and issues in the design and development of multimedia database systems. The chapters in the book are developed from presentations given at previous meetings of the International Workshop on Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems (IW-MMDBMS), and address the following issues:

• development of adequate multimedia database models,
• design of multimedia database query and retrieval languages,
• design of indexing and organization techniques,
• development of efficient and reliable storage models,
• development of efficient and dependable retrieval and delivery strategies, and
• development of flexible, adaptive, and reliable presentation techniques.

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Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies is a compendium of the state-of-the-art research and development work pertaining to the problems and issues in the design and development of multimedia database systems. The chapters in the book are developed from presentations given at previous meetings of the International Workshop on Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems (IW-MMDBMS), and address the following issues:

• development of adequate multimedia database models,
• design of multimedia database query and retrieval languages,
• design of indexing and organization techniques,
• development of efficient and reliable storage models,
• development of efficient and dependable retrieval and delivery strategies, and
• development of flexible, adaptive, and reliable presentation techniques.

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Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies is a compendium of the state-of-the-art research and development work pertaining to the problems and issues in the design and development of multimedia database systems. The chapters in the book are developed from presentations given at previous meetings of the International Workshop on Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems (IW-MMDBMS), and address the following issues:

• development of adequate multimedia database models,
• design of multimedia database query and retrieval languages,
• design of indexing and organization techniques,
• development of efficient and reliable storage models,
• development of efficient and dependable retrieval and delivery strategies, and
• development of flexible, adaptive, and reliable presentation techniques.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Multimedia DBMS — Reality or Hype?....Pages 1-16
Database Approach for the Management of Multimedia Information....Pages 17-46
STORM: An Object-Oriented Multimedia DBMS....Pages 47-88
Searching and Browsing a Shared Video Database....Pages 89-122
A Visual Multimedia Query Language for Temporal Analysis of Video Data....Pages 123-159
A Multimedia Query Specification Language....Pages 160-184
Load-Balanced Data Placement for Variable-Rate Continuous Media Retrieval....Pages 185-207
An Object-Oriented Modeling of Multimedia Database Objects and Applications....Pages 208-250
Synchronization and User Interaction in Distributed Multimedia Presentation Systems....Pages 251-277
Model for Interactive Retrieval of Videos and Still Images....Pages 278-297
MB+-Tree: An Index Structure for Content-Based Retrieval....Pages 298-317
Playout Management in Multimedia Database Systems....Pages 318-376
Back Matter....Pages 377-381

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Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies is a compendium of the state-of-the-art research and development work pertaining to the problems and issues in the design and development of multimedia database systems. The chapters in the book are developed from presentations given at previous meetings of the International Workshop on Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems (IW-MMDBMS), and address the following issues:

• development of adequate multimedia database models,
• design of multimedia database query and retrieval languages,
• design of indexing and organization techniques,
• development of efficient and reliable storage models,
• development of efficient and dependable retrieval and delivery strategies, and
• development of flexible, adaptive, and reliable presentation techniques.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Multimedia DBMS — Reality or Hype?....Pages 1-16
Database Approach for the Management of Multimedia Information....Pages 17-46
STORM: An Object-Oriented Multimedia DBMS....Pages 47-88
Searching and Browsing a Shared Video Database....Pages 89-122
A Visual Multimedia Query Language for Temporal Analysis of Video Data....Pages 123-159
A Multimedia Query Specification Language....Pages 160-184
Load-Balanced Data Placement for Variable-Rate Continuous Media Retrieval....Pages 185-207
An Object-Oriented Modeling of Multimedia Database Objects and Applications....Pages 208-250
Synchronization and User Interaction in Distributed Multimedia Presentation Systems....Pages 251-277
Model for Interactive Retrieval of Videos and Still Images....Pages 278-297
MB+-Tree: An Index Structure for Content-Based Retrieval....Pages 298-317
Playout Management in Multimedia Database Systems....Pages 318-376
Back Matter....Pages 377-381
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