THE THIRD PACIFIC WORKSHOP ON DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS June 25 - 28, Hong Kong Technical Program (June 27 - 28) Thursday, June 27 8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration 9:00 am - 10:20 am Plenary Opening Session S.-K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Ming Liou, Hongkong Telecom Institute of Information Technology, HKUST, Hong Kong Mr. Philip Wong, AsiaOnline 10:20 am - 10:40 am Break 10:40 am - 12:20 pm Parallel Paper Session 1 - Network Management in Distributed Multimedia Systems Chair: Victor O. K. Li, Univ. of Southern California, USA "A Synchronous Scheduling Model for Distributed Multimedia Systems," Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA "An Evolutionary Computing Approach to Multimedia Routing Optimization," Robert Simon and Taieb Znati, and Robert J. Sclabassi, University of Pittsburgh, USA "The OLVP (OnLine Video Processing) System Architecture based on Distributed VOD Servers," Frederic Andres, NACSIS, Japan and Ifatec/Euriware, France Keigo Ihara, Sony Corporation, Japan, Jihad Boulos, Paris VI University and Ifatec/Euriware, France, Kiniji Ono, NACSIS, Japan, Yasuda, WASEDA University, Japan "Realtime Multimedia Stream Transport System based on the High-Speed Network," Doh Sang-Yoon, Min Jang and Kwan-Hee Yoo, DACOM R&D Center, Korea 10:40 am - 12:20 pm Parallel Paper Session 2: User and Agent Interactions in Multimedia Systems Chair: Lorraine M. Duvall, Kaman Sciences Corp., USA "User Interface Design of Interactive Multimedia Services (IMS) Applications: An Empirical Evaluation," Patrick Chau, Grace Au and Kar Yan Tam, HKUST, Hong Kong "Improving Human Interaction with a Hyperworld," Jianhua Ma and Runhe Huang, University of Aizu, Japan "Interaction Between Intelligent Agents in a Multimedia Patient Folder Management System," Fernando Ferri and Patrizia Grifoni, Istituto di Studi sulla Ricerca e Documentazione Scientifica - CNR , Italy "A QoS Prediction Management System in Distributed Multimedia Networks," Yoshito Ueno, SOKA University, Japan 12:20 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Parallel Paper Session 3: Multimedia and Hypermedia Synchronization Chair: Son T. Vuong, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada "Synchronization Issues in Multimedia Presentational and Conversational Applications," Nicolas D. Georganas, University of Ottawa, Canada "HAS - An Object Oriented Model for Hypermedia Authoring Systems," Son T. Vuong, University of British Columbia, Canada, Jose G. Pereira Filho, Federal University of Espiristo Santo, Brasil "Formal Modeling and Verification of Multimedia Documents," J.-P. Courtiat, R.C. De Oliveira and L. Andriantsiferana, LAAS/CNRS, France 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Parallel Paper Session 4: Data Management in DMS Chair: Frederick H. Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong "Multimedia Data Modeling in Distributed Multimedia Systems," Wanjiun Liao and Victor O. K. Li, Univ. of Southern California, USA "A View Based Methodology for Designing Hypermedia Applications," Heeseok Lee, Jongho Kim and Young Gul Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, and Seon H. Cho, Wang Computer LTD, Korea "Distributed Multimedia Databases as Component of a Teleservice for Workflow Management," Heiko Thimm, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute, Germany, Ulrich Marder, Gunter Robbert and Klaus Meyer-Wegener, Dresden University of Technology, Germany 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm Plenary Panel Session I Internet and Distributed Multimedia Systems Moderator: David Du, University of Minnesota, USA Panelists: Lorraine M. Duvall, Kaman Sciences Corp., USA Ronnie Sham, Hongkong Telecom IMS, Hong Kong L. Shen, ITRI, Taiwan, R.O.C. Kazuo Sugihara, University of Hawaii, USA 6:30 pm Dinner, Royal Pacific Hotel Friday, June 28 9:00 am - 10:20 am Parallel Paper Session 5: Visual Information Systems - Database Techniques and Paradigms Chair: Clement Leung, Victoria University of Technology, Australia "Retrieving Structured Images Using Fuzzy Similarity Measures," Zhi-Qiang Liu and Joanne Ping Sun, University of Melbourne, Australia "Construction of Intelligent TV Drama Database based on the Synchronization between Image, Sound and Script," Yoshitomo Yaginuma and Masao Sakauchi, University of Tokyo, Japan "Film Databases and Film Machines," Nikolay Mirenkov and Tatiana Mirenkova, University of Aizu, Japan "Speeding Up Image Identification In Distributed Computing Environments," J. You, Griffith University, Australia, W.P. Zhu, University of South Australia, Australia, J. Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 9:00 am - 10:20 am Parallel Paper Session 6: Storage Management in DMS Chair: Lutz Wegner, Universitat Kassel, Germany "An Effective Data Placement Scheme to Serve Popular Video On-Demand," Sangyup Shim, Harish Vedavyasa and David H.C. Du, University of Minnesota, USA "Dynamic Reallocation of Multimedia Data Objects," Cyril Orji, Naphtali Rishe, Florida International University, USA, Donald A. Adjeroh, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Kingsley C. Nwosu, Lucent Technologies, (AT&T Bell Labs), USA "A Network-based Cooperative Server Cluster: An Adaptive Coarse-Grained Striping Approach for Multimedia Retrieval," Sheau-Ru Tong and Li-Yung Lu, National Pingtung Polytechnic Institute, Taiwan, R.O.C. 10:20 am - 10:40 am Break 10:40 am - 12:20 pm Parallel Paper Session 7: Multimedia Application Development Languages and Environments Chair: Kazuo Sugihara, University of Hawaii, USA "An Object-Oriented Database Programming Language with Roles for Multimedia Applications," Raymond K. Wong, H. Lewis Chau and Frederick H. Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong "An Integrated Distributed Multimedia System and Development Environment," Tin-Fook Ngai, King-On Yeung and Shing-Chi Cheung, HKUST, Hong Kong "3D-Visulan: A 3D Programming Language for 3D Applications," Kakuya Yamamoto, Kyoto University, Japan "Multimedia Services based on the ATM network: VOD and Home shopping," Min Jang, Doh Sang Yoon, Ok Kyun Oh, Jin ho Choi and Kwan-Hee Yoo, DACOM R&D Center, Korea 10:40 am - 12:20 pm Parallel Paper Session 8: Models for Multimedia Information Retrieval and System Design Chair: Horace Ip, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong "A Smart WWW Page Model and Its Application to On-Line Information Retrieval in Hyperspace," Ping-Wen Chen, Greg Barry and S.-k. Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA "Spatio-temporal Contents Acquisition and Retrieval in a Video Information System," Chueh-Wei Chang and Suh-Yin Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. "Cost Models for Distributed Multimedia Applications," Petre Dini, Univ. & Computer Research Institute of Montreal, Canada, Abdel Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada and Gregor V. Bochmann, Univ. & Computer Research Institute of Montreal, Canada "A Virtual Music Network Service Scaleable to Network and Terminal Characteristics," Hyoung-Do Kim and Jong Sung, DACOM R&D Center, Korea "Hypertext Chinese/English Information Retrieval System," Liyou Yang, Yanqing Wu, PLA Logistic Commanding College, P.R. China Zhaoxiong Chen, Chinese Academy of Science, P.R. China and Jianye Zhu, Institute of Military Law, P.R. china 12:20 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Parallel Paper Session 9: Visual Information Systems - Design and Architecture Chair: William I. Grosky, Wayne State University, USA "A Multi-paradigm Approach to Visual Information Systems Design," W.W.S. So, C.H.C. Leung and Z.J. Zheng, Victoria University of Technology, Australia "Visual Information Systems - A Database Perspective," Jens Thamm, Sven Thelemann and Lutz Wegner, Universitat Kassel, Germany "An Object-Oriented Hypermedia System for Structured Documents," HyunKi Kim, ZongCheol Zhoo, Systems Engineering Research Institute, Korea, HakGene Shin, National University of Chonbuk, Korea and JaeWoo Chang, National University of Chonbuk, Korea 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Parallel Paper Session 10: Multimedia Presentation Designs Chair: L. Shen, ITRI, Taiwan, R.O.C. "Building a Framework for Flexible Interactive Presentations," James A. Schnepf, St. John's University, USA, Yen-Jen Lee, David H.C. Du, Lan Lai, University of Minnesota, USA and Liang-Wei Kang Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, R.O.C. "Visual Multimedia Presentation Designs," Timothy K. Shih, Chin-Hwa Kuo and Hwei-Jen Lin, Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C. "A Synchronization Module for User Interactive Control using the Script Language," Jeung Won Choi, Chungnam National University, Korea, Hoon Seon Chang, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea and Chi Jung Hwang, Chungnam National University, Korea 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm Plenary Panel Session II Research, Engineering and Management Issues of DMS Moderator: Olivia R. Liu Sheng, HKUST, Hong Kong Panelists: William I. Grosky, Wayne State University, USA Kai Hwang, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Clement Leung, Victoria Univ. of Technology, Australia Lutz Wegner, Universitat Kassel, Germany 4:45 pm Closing Remarks