PROCEEDINGS DMS 2002 The 8th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Sponsored by Knowledge Systems Institute, USA Co-Sponsored by University of Pittsburgh, USA Hosei University Research Institute, California, USA Hosei University IT Research Center, Japan University of Aizu, Japan Tamkang University, Taiwan Technical Program September 26-28, 2002 San Francisco, California, USA Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute Table of Content Foreword............iii Conference Organization...............iv Tableofcontents.............xi The 8th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Keynotes 1. Cyber Assist Project for Situated Human Support.............3 Dr. Hideyuki Nakashima 2. Internet Based Remotely Controlled Laboratories.........8 Lambertus Hesselink 3. Distributed Virtual Environment Applications in Science, Education, and Industry based on PC-Linux-clusters and Standard Components: Case of Experience..........9 Dr. Stanislav Klimenko Distance Education and Collaborative Learning Environments 4. The Test Result Feedback Model for Content Improvement in Distance Education........11 Hui-huang Hsu 5. A Realization of Multilingual Collaborative Learning Environment Based on Lyee Technology........16 Zentaro Komiya, Ivan IP Ho, Billy Pham, Sayavong Khamsang, Eiji Ishida, Katsumi Yasuda, Hisato Kobayashi and Kazuo Yana 6. Course Authoring and Student Assessment System for Distance Learning.............25 Flora Chia-I Chang, Timothy K. Shih, and Nigel H. Lin 7. An Innovative Method for Course Content Development – the Courseware Diagram….....33 Flora Chia-I Chang and Lun-Ping Hung Distributed Systems 8. The Development of a Distributed Object Environment for Parallel and Distributed Systems..........40 Norihiro Fujii and Nobuhiko Koike 9. Compensation of Multimedia Operation...........46 Motokazu Yokoyama and Makoto Takizawa 10. Java Distributed Processing of Implicitly Defined Geometric Objects................52 Eisaku Ohbuchi and Vladimir Savchenko 11. Design and Implementation of a Framework for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems...60 Hiroyuki Koizumi and Jianhua Ma 12. Directory Service Component Architecture for a Distributed Infrastructure to Support Innovative Business to Business Collaboration.......................................68 Incheon Paik, Wonhee Park Web-based Systems and Applications 13. Web-based Multimedia Platform for Programming..................76 Alexander Vazhenin, Ying-Hong Wang and Dmitry Vazhenin 14. A Peer-to-Peer Snared Web Browser..........84 Mikito Nakamura and Jianhua Ma 15. Use of HTML Content in Pure XML Browsers.......92 Vesa Kautto, Niklas von Knorring and Teemu Ropponen 16. A Locking-based Protocol with Mark for Supporting Web-based Classes.......100 Chanjung Park and Hwakyung Rim Multimedia Network and Streaming 17. GREEN Buffer Management for Multiple QoS Classes in Multimedia Networks........108 Lain-Chyr Hwang, Cheng- Yuan Ku, Steen J. Hsu, San- Yuan Wang, Huan- Ying Lo 18. Transcoding Functions for Flexible Multimedia Streaming..........115 Koji Hashimoto, Yoshitaka Shibata, and Norio Shiratori 19. A New Architecture for Secure Internetworking.............123 Atsushi Kara 20. A Low-Impact Performance Evaluation Method of Campus Network Systems by Finely Synchronized File Access.....129 Leo Nagamatsu and Naoki Wakamatsu 21. Large Scale Video Conferencing: A Digital Amphitheater......137 Ladan Gharai Image Retrieval and Human-Machine Interactions 22. Designing Quantization Table for DWT-based Image Compression by GA...........144 Tao Tao 23. Image Retrieval by Color, Texture, and Spatial Information......152 Xiuqi Li, Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Borko Furht 24. Understanding of Facial Expressions by the Hierarchical Recognition Approach for Man-machine Collaboration......160 Y. Dai, S. Katahera, Y. Shibata, D. Cai 25. A Gesture-based Presentation System for Distributed Artifacts in Mixed Reality World…..167 Masaki Omata, Kentaro Go and Atsumi Imamiya Pervasive Computing and Applications 26. Vital Signal Telemonitoring for Homecare Service.........176 Daming Wei (invited talk) 27. Pervasive Web Computing via Service Request Redirection....179 Jason C. Hung and Yun-Chung Lu 28. The Design of Multi-Issue Negotiation System in Electronic Commerce.................187 Timothy K. Shih and Chuan-Feng Chiu 29. Group Protocol for Exchanging Multimedia Objects..............195 Seiichi Hatori and Makoto Takizawa 30. Homepage and Communication: Quality Metrics..........202 Francisco Cipolla Ficarra The 2002 International Workshop on Cryptology and Network Security Stream ciphers, algorithms, and cryptanalysis 31. TSRG: Design and Analysis of a Proposed Two-stage RNG.............213 G.Hussein Email 32. Cryptanalysis of Some Hash Functions Based on Block Ciphers and Codes.........221 Hongjun Wu, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng 33. Analysis of AES S-box with Walsh Spectrum..........225 Baodian Wei, Dongsu Liu, and Xinmei Wang 34. Practical Construction for Multicast Re-keying Schemes Using R-S code..........229 Chun-yan Bai, Roberta Houston, and Gui-liang Feng 35. Using Frobenius Endomorphism to Speed Up Point Scalar Multiplication on Elliptic Curves......237 Lin You, Qiaoyan Wen, Yixian Yang Network authentication protocols & Internet commerce 36. To Construct Efficient Single-Term Divisible Electronic Cash Based on Blind Nybarg-Rueppel Digital Signature......243 Ming Zhong 37. Multisecret Sharing Immune Against Cheating............249 Josef Pieprzyk and Xian-Mo Zhang 38. An Anonymous Mobile Agents Scheme for Secure Web Transaction Over Internet......257 Changjie Wang, Fangguo Zhang, Yumin Wang 39. Distributed Approach for Internet Crime Detection.......265 B.Brahma Reddy, Mumtaz A. Khan, Moin Uddin Cryptosystems and Applications 40. A Complete Group Cryptographic System........272 Y. Mu and V. Varadharajan 41. At-WiIl Intractability Up to Plaintext Equivocation Achieved via a Cryptographic Key Made As Small, or As Large As Desired – Without Computational Penalty............278 Gideon Samid 42. Fault Tolerance in the Key Agreement Protocol Chimera.......286 Cyril Prissette 43. Digital Semipublic Watermarking..............294 Valeri Korjik, Guillermo Morales-Luna, Dmitry Marakov and Irina Marakova 44. The improvement of Li Logic system and it’s application..........301 Yifa Li, Yaqun Zhao The 2002 International Workshop on Internet Computing and Multimedia Internet-based Multimedia Methods and Tools 45. VoD System Using a Network Storage Manager......311 Qutaibah Malluhi and Omar Aldaoud 46. QoS Control Model in Group Communication.............316 Takuya Tojo and Makoto Takizawa 47. Stored DV Data Transmission Mechanism for Internet VoD.......323 Nobuhiko Sugasawa and Kazunori Sugiura 48. Pipelining Architecture for Smart Camera Systems........330 Tiehan Lv, Burak Ozer, and Wayne Wolf Applications for Internet Computing 49. A Pilot Study of A Delay-Efficient Satellite Network For Supporting Multimedia Communication........335 Mark Foster and Jonathan C.L. Liu 50. Mobile Agent Platform Supports to e-Marketing Place.......343 Ying-Hong Wang, Qun Jin, Shih-Wel Kao, and Huei- Yuan Chan 51. Agent-bases Platform Supporting Applied Programming........351 Ying-Hong Wang and Alexander Vazhenin 52. Results Merging with the OASIS System: an Experimental Comparison of Two Techniques.........358 V.V. Kluev The 2002 International Workshop on Multimedia Distance Education Workshop Systems and Technologies Multimedia Distance Education Systems and Tools 53. Online Video Error-Analysis for Video-based CALL Using a Voice Recognition System...........369 Y. Hada, H. Ogata, K. Kanenishi and Y. Yano 54. A Courseware Edit Tool Based on Content Packaging Specification..........377 Wu Di, Zhou Bing and Yang Zongkai 55. Implementation of Effective Learning Method SQ3R Supporting Tools in Distance Learning System........383 G. Zhang, Z. Cheng, T. Huang, A. He and A. Koyama 56. Active Learning Based Distance Education for Teaching Object Oriented Programming for Information Systems......391 J. Herath, S. Ramnath, A. Herath and S. Herath 57. Distance Lecture Delivering Environment Based on Learning Ecological Model - Practical Study on Cooperative Experiment between University and Industry –........395 T. Matsui, K. Seki, H. Inoue and T. Okamoto Educational Resource Sharing and Distributed Systems 58. Promoting Web-based Education in the Least Developed Countries over PSTN by the Use of Point-to-Point Protocols and Proxy Caches..........403 Ngarambe Donart, Pan Yunhe and Deren Chen 59. The Support System for Novice Programming Instruction Using Teacher’s Instructional Information.......413 S. Kawata, A. Miyatake and Y. Yano 60. The Development of a Communication Control Platform for Real-time Interactive Distance Education Support Systems....420 A. He, Z. Cheng, T. Huang and A. Koyama 61. Development of Communication Systems for Multi-point Remote Seminar Environment........429 T. Hayashi and Y. Hayashida 62. Peer-to-Peer Information Exchange and Sharing for Learning Communities.....436 Q. Jin, T. Numata, S. Takizawa, Z. Peng and J. Ma Software Agents and Intelligent Support 63. Agent Embedded in Distance Education System for General Learner VS Disability Learners.......444 Y. Arai and R. Huang 64. An Intelligent English Learning Corpus Supported by Multimedia........452 Ying-Hong Wang and Chih-Hao Lin 65. Research on the Intelligent Homework Extraction Technology in E-learning.......460 Zhou Hua and He Qin-Ming 66. A Multi-modal Tele-Robots as a Mobile Intelligent Communication Interface – Spatial Processing and 3-D Sound Human Interface......464 J. Huang, K. Kume, A. Saji, M. Nishihashi, T. Watanabe and M.L. Martens The 2002 International Workshop on Mobile Systems, E-commerce and Agent Technology Agent Technology and Mobile System 67. A Role Switching Agent for Reducing Packet Lost Phenomenon in Bluetooth Wireless Networks.......473 Chih- Yung Chang, Kuei-Ping Shih, Chih-Hsiung Tseng, and Chun-Fu Wang 68. A Case Study of Middle Agent Architecture in Distributed Object System.............480 Teh-Sheng Huang and Hui-Huang Hsu 69. Joint Selection of Optimal Traffic Class for the Compressed Video Source with Delay bounded Services.......485 Kuan-Cheng Lin, Ren-Jing Huang, Wen-Chung Chiang, and Yen-Ping Chu 70. Password Authentication using Artificial Neural Network......493 Kuan-Cheng Lin, Min-Tzu Wang, Ren-Jing Huang and Yen-Ping Chu E-Commerce 71. Addressing the Challenges of International E-commerce Using Agent Technologies..........501 Katerina Tsiara, Yiannis Kouroupis, Theodora Varvarigou and Yiannis Stavroulas 72. Chain Store in Electronic Commerce via Nomadic Media Server...........509 Jason C. Hung, Ching-Sheng Wang, Che-Yu Yang and Chia-Tong Tan 73. Planning Marketing Strategy in the Mobile Commerce Environment........515 Timothy K. Shih, Lun-Ping Hung and Chia-Ling Ho 74. Building Mobile Marketing Agent to Support Direct Link between Consumer and Supplier.......520 Timothy K. Shih, Lun-Ping Hung and Chia-Ling Ho 75. The Design of Community Recommendation Architecture via Mobile Agent.....525 Chuan-Feng Chiu, Timothy K. Shih and Che- Yu Yang Network and Applications 76. Project Oriented Course in Machine Vision.......531 Yeu-Jent Hu, Ping-Ling Fan, and Wei-Hsien Wu 77. Network Implementation of an Electrical Portfolio in Elementary School Visual-Art Education.....535 Shu-Huey Yang, Ding-Ming Wang, Hsienyi Lin and Kuan-Cheng Lin 78. The Design and Development of a Mobile Questionnaire System.......541 Kuan-Cheng Lin and Jeff T. C. Lee 79. Exploration and Development on Shareable Content Object.........547 Deren Chen and Wenying Guo The 2002 International Workshop on Visual Computing Visual Computing on Derivatively Visual Objects 80. Navigating Product Catalogs Through OFDAV Graph Visualization............555 Mao Lin Huang and Kang Zhang 81. Self Explanatory Components: Visualization of Graph Algorithms..........562 Nick Mirenkov, Oleg Monakhov, and Rentaro Yoshioka. 82. An Enhanced Visual Editor for Multimedia Software Engineering.........568 P. Maresca, T. Arndt, A. Guercio, P. Donadio 83. Damask: A Tool for Early-Stage Design and Prototyping of Multi-Device User Interfaces.....573 James Landay and Jim Lin 84. A Temporal Model of Virtual Reality Objects and Their Semantics.......581 Jorge Campos, Kathleen Hornsby and Max J. Egenhofer 85. Image Stack Stream Model of Multimedia Data.......589 Alfonso F. Cardenas and Panayiotis A. Michael Interactive Visual Computing 86. CobWeb: Visual Design of Collaboration Protocols for Dynamic Group Web Browsing.......595 David Stotts, Jan Prins, Lars Nyland 87. Semantic Zooming in the Specification of Communication Protocols.....599 Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. and Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr. 88. Multiple Interface Communication System......606 Tetsuya Hirotomi and Nikolay N. Mirenkov 89. Co-operative design of Visual Interactive Systems.....612 P. Carrara, D. Fogli, G. Fresta, P. Mussio 90. Shared Viewpoint Control for Information Visualization.......618 Steven Hughes 91. Interactive Techniques for Exploring Data Using Behavioral Animation.....622 Ralph Qoerner an4 Cobm Ware Visual Computing on Inherently Visual Objects 92. Shape Manipulation using Pixel Rewrites.....630 George Furnas and Yang Qu 93. WISIHTR Access in Image Database Retrieval......640 Atsuo Yoshitaka 94. 3D Sliders: Programming Uses for 3D Object Warping in Collaborative Virtual Environments........644 Dave Stotts 95. Visual Notation of Film Language System.........648 Rentaro Yoshioka, Nikolay Mirenkov, Yuho Tsuchida and Yutaka Watanobe 96. Visualizing Cellular Image Processing Algorithms.......656 Mahmoud A. Saber and Nikolay Mrenkov 97. Visualizing Input/Output Specification........660 Robert R. Roxas and Nikolay N. Mirenkov Systems and Applications 98. Determination of Terrain Features in a Terrain Data Model Using Symbolic Filters........664 Erland Jungert, Fredrik Lantz, Mats Sjovall, Johan Fransson 99. Towards Automatic Reconstruction of Application Specific Synthetic Environments.........668 Simon Ahlberg 100. Information Design for a 3D Nautical Navigational Visualization System.........673 Thomas Porathe 101. Evolutionary Query Processing, Fusion and Visualization.........677 S. K Chang 102. On Model based Fusion of Laser and Camera: Visualizing Uncertainty.......687 Jonas Nygards 103. A Visual Virtual Machine for Java Programs: Exploration and Early Experiences........695 Paul Dourish and Johan Byttner The 2002 International Workshop on XML in Digital Media XML in Digital Media 104. CoMet: An Electronic Newspaper Prototype........703 J. Ylikoivisto and J. Puustjarvi 105. XrML, the Rights Language for Digital Media........708 X. Wang, G. Lao and T. DeMartini 106. Advanced User Interface Features in XForms.......715 M. Honkala and P. Vuorimaa 107. Server Side XML Formatting..........723 I. Beszteri and P. Vuorimaa 108. Evaluating XML Based Service Adaptation............728 K. Pihkala, M. Pohja and P. Vuorimaa Authors’ Index.....................735