DMS 2003 PROCEEDINGS The 9th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Sponsored by Knowledge Systems Institute, USA Florida International University, USA Technical Program September 24-26, 2003 Miami, Florida, USA Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute Table of Content Preface............iii Conference Organization.........iv Table of Contents............xi The 9th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Keynotes Secure Distributed Multimedia Information Management......3 Bhavani Thuraisingham Next Generation Networking: Distributed Multimedia Information for Healthcare......4 Michael J. Ackerman Distributed Multimedia Information Systems: An End-to-End Perspective.........5 Arif Ghafoor Multimedia Software Engineering and Multimedia Management Systems Designing Quality of Service Based Multimedia Systems Using the Unified Modeling Language........6 Muhammad Abdulla, Duminda Wijesekera, and Hassan Gomaa MM4U-A framework for creating personalized multimedia content.......12 Susanne Boll MediaManager: A Distributed Multimedia Management System for Content-Based Retrieval, Authoring and Presentation.......17 Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Na Zhao Info Navigator: A Visualization Interface for Document Searching and Browsing........23 Matthew Carey, Daniel C Heesch, and Stefan M Ruger Tele-conferencing Technologies Uncompressed Video Transmissions and Remote Controlled Distributed Television Productions in Real-Time over High-Capacity Networks........29 Susanne Naegele-Jackson, Peter Holleczek, Andreas Metz, and Horst Wollherr Seamless Videoconferencing System.........35 Thitiporn Lertrusdachakul, A. Taguchi, T. Aoki, and H. Yasuda Conferencing: A 3D Audio Conferencing/Archiving Service Supporting Wireless PDA Clients With 3D Graphical Interactive Interfaces.........41 Stuart Goose, Jochen Riedlinger, and Sreedhar Kodlahalli Adaptive QoS-Based Load-Sharing in Multisession-Video-Conferencing Distributed Multimedia System........47 Mohammad R. Moghal, Mohammad S. Mian, and Jahangir A. Satti Multimedia Communications and Network Architectures Notification-Based QoS Control Protocol for Group Communication.......53 Takuya Tojo, Tomoya Enokido, and Makoto Takizawa Layer Subscription Coordination in Arbitrary Non-Cumulative Layered Multicasting Environments.........59 Gamal Abdel Shafy Ebrahim and Akmal A. Younis Adaptive Adjustment of End-to-End Delay and Inter-Receiver Delay Variation in the Multicast Tree........66 Gamal Abdel Shafy Ebrahim and Akmal A. Younis Enhancing Patching Performance Through Double Patching.........72 Ying Cai, Wallapak Tavanapong, and Kien A. Hua Multimedia Communications and Interaction for Mobile Applications and Wireless Networks A Cross-Layer Optimization Approach For Multimedia Over CDMA Mobile Wireless Networks........78 Yee Sin Chan and James W. Modestino A Multimedia Programming Environment for Cellular Automata Systems.......84 Mahmoud A. Saber, Nikolay Mirenkov Quality-of-Service Based Delivery of Multimedia Database Objects without Compromising Format Independence........90 Sven Schmidt, Andreas Marcz, Wolfgang Lehner, Maciej Suchomski, and Klaus Meyer-Wegener Quality of Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches by Emulating Output Queueing Switch.......94 Qiang Duan Web-based Applications, Multimedia Streaming and QoS Control Autopilot Scripting for the TerraFly GIS........98 Naphtali Rishe, Boonserm Wongsaroj, Maxim Chekmasov, Andriy Selivonenko, Yanli Sun, Scott Graham, and Alejandro Mendoza Mining Typical User Profiles using Non-negative Matrix Factorization.........101 Jianjiang Lu, Baowen Xu, Gangshi Huang, and Yafei Zhang Web-based Virtual Tour Using The Tour Into The Picture (TIP) Technique.......105 Sanghyuk Yoon, Hai-jung Chen, Tom Hsu, and Ilmi Yoon Congestion Adaptive Streaming: An Integrated Approach.......109 Ashwatha Matthur and Padmavathi Mundur Multimedia Content Analysis, Retrieval and Intelligent Multimedia Computing Efficient Content-Based Video Retrieval Using Fuzzy Spatial Relations.......113 Abeer S. Madbouly, Nigel M. John, Akmal A. Younis, and Mansur R. Kabuka Compressed Pattern Matching for Predictive Lossless Image Encoding.......120 Tao Tao and Amar Mukherjee A Distributed Algorithm for Intelligent Stereoscopic Image Capture.......126 Sameer Narkhede and Forouzan Golshani Multimedia Compression, Modeling and Web-based Applications CULTOS:Towards a World-Wide Digital Collection of Exchangeable Units of Multimedia Content for Intertextual Studies....130 Karin Schellner, Utz Westermann, Sonja Zillner, and Wolfgang Klas Wavelet-Based Video Compression Using Multiresolution Motion Estimation and Compensation.......138 Weiting Cai and Malek Adjouadi A Rich-Semantics GIS Imagery Composing Framework.......144 Naphtali Rishe, Yanli Sun, and Andriy Selivonenko Testing Web Performance Through Obtaining Users’ Actions.......148 Lei Xu, Baowen Xu, Hongji Yang, and Huowang Chen Video Data Management Detection of Plays and Breaks in football Games Using Audiovisual Features and HMM.......154 Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb and Guy Ravitz VDBMS: A Testbed Facility for Research in Video Database Benchmarking.......160 Walid G. Aref, Ann Catlin, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Jianping Fan, Moustafa Hammad, Ihab Ilyas, Mirette Marzouk, Sunil Prabhakar, Yi-Cheng Tu, and Xingquan Zhu Video Indexing and Retrieval based on Object Motion and Positions.......167 Serhan Dagtas Playing Video Streams with Variable Qualities.......173 Ibrahim Kamel and Khaled Elbassioni Fast 2D Wavelet Transform Through a Novel "Twisted-Packed" Algorithm.......181 Corneliu Manescu and Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal XML Based Applications and Intelligent Multimodal Interaction XML Schema Modeling Using Sem-ODM.......187 Li Yang, Naphtali Rishe, Maxim Chekmasov, Scott Graham, Yanli Sun, and Ian de Felipe Implementation of a .NET Distributed Computing Cluster using XML Web Services.......193 Alejandro Simon, Malek Adjouadi, Anaelis Sesin, Craig Mackey, Mark Rossman, and Melvin Ayala Layout Adaptation with XFrames.......199 Istvan Beszteri and Petri Vuorimaa Intelligent Multimodal Interaction.......204 Smita Bhandarkar, Divya Sathyanarain, and Akanksha Singhvi Virtual Learning Community and Distance Learning Methodologies Augmented Video System Based on Petri Net.......208 Timothy K. Shih, Han-Bin Chang, Yi-Chun Liao, and Jung-Ken Chuang DSC-A Decentralized Synchronous Collaboration P2P System Using JXTA.......214 Jianhua Ma, Makoto Shizuka, Jeneung Lee, Tomomi Kawashima, and Runhe Huang Web-Service Oriented Content Providing for SCORM Compatible LMS Systems.......220 Chih-Ping Chu, Chingpao Chang, Alice (Chung-Wei) Yeh, and Yufang Yeh A Real-Time Interactive Distance Education System for Broad Band Internet Environment.......226 Billy Pham, Kazuo Yana, and Hisato Kobayashi A SCORM Based Content Aggregation and Presentation system.......233 Timothy K. Shih, Wen-Chih Chang, Keith Hsieh, and Jyh Yu Hu Multimedia Technologies for People With Disability The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI).......237 Roman Krepki, Benjamin Blankertz, Gabriel Curio, and Klaus-Robert Müller 3-D Sound Navigational Aid for the Blind Based on Real-Time Sonar Range Measurements.......245 Armando B. Barreto, Maroof H. Choudhury, and Carlos A. Ordonez Use of 3-D Sound Auditory Icons in the Enhancement of Human-Computer Interfaces for Partially Sighted Users.......251 Armando B. Barreto, P.O. Hugh, J.A. Jacko, and M. Adjouadi The 2003 International Conference on Visual Languages and Computing Visual and spatial reasoning Truth, Negation, and Entailment in Pictures.......257 Gary Malinas A Constraint Diagram Reasoning System.......263 Gem Stapleton, John Howse, and John Taylor Lambda-Space-A Mapping of the Observation Space for Spatial Reasoning.......271 Erland Jungert Documents in Visual Reasoning: From Paper-Based to Electronic Ones.......277 Daniela Fogli, Giuseppe Fresta, Piero Mussio, and Denise Salvi Visualization of Uncertainty in Spatial Classification.......283 Iftikhar Sikder, Aryya Gangopadhyay, and Victoria Y. Yoon Pictorial querying and visualization Aspects of a Visual User Interface for Spatial/Temporal Queries.......287 Karin Silvervarg and Erland Jungert WebMGISQL - A 3D Visual Environment for GIS Querying.......294 L. Paolino, F. Pittarello, M. Sebillo, G. Tortota, and G. Vitiello Qualitative Tools to Support Visual Querying in Large Spatial Databases.......300 Alia I. Abdelmoty and Baher A. El-Geresy CADAPPLETS: Visualization of VLSI CAD Algorithms.......306 John A. Nestor Customized Multimedia Presentations in a Distance Learning Environment.......312 T. Arndt, A. Guercio, P. Maresca, and H. Kulkarni Reasoning on subjective visual perception in visual computing Visualizing User's Emotions for Enhanced Human Computer Interaction.......316 Christine L. Lisetti, Fatma Nasoz, and Ning Yu Is the subjective feel of "presence" an uninteresting goal?.......322 Roberto Casati and Elena Pasquinelli Interpretation and ambiguity resolution in Sketch-Based Interfaces.......327 Fernando Ferri and Patrizia Grifoni What Users See Is What Users Need.......335 Daniela Fogli, Antonio Piccinno, and Denise Salvi Exploring Multiple Visualization Perspectives with Aesthetic Computing.......341 Paul Fishwick Specifying and generating Visual Languages and Environments A Tool for the Aided Generation of Interactive Visual Environments.......347 R. Cassino, G. Tortora, M. Tucci, and G. Vitiello CIDER: A Component-Based Toolkit for Creating Smart Diagram Environments.......353 Anthony R. Jansen, Kim Marriott, and Brad Meyer Exceptions in Visual Data Flow Programming Languages.......360 Philip T. Cox, and Simon Gauvin Semantic Specifications in Reserved Graph Grammars.......368 Ke-Bing Zhang, Kang Zhang, and Mehmet A.Orgun The 2003 International Conference on Visual Information Systems Visual Information Systems & Architecture Recent Advancement in Indexing and Retrieval of Visual Documents.......375 L. Guan, P. Muneesawang, J. Lay, I. Lee and T. Amin Content-based browsing of mail-order catalogue with PicSOM system.......381 V. Viitaniemi and J. Laaksonen A Versatile Image Retrieval Platform based on a Multi-agent Architecture.......387 S. Dimitriadis, K. Marias, and S. C. Orphanoudakis Visual Retrieval of Environmental Information.......393 G. Lopez, K. Sasaki, and P. Maret Content Analysis and Benchmarking Video Text Detection And Segmentation.......397 C. W. Ngo and N. C. K. Chan Contextually Meaningful Representation of Color for the Description of Visual Content.......403 S. Volmer and N. Diakopoulos Relevance Feedback in Content-Based Image Retrieval Using GRA.......410 Kui Cao and Y. Feng A Benchmark for Performance Calibration in Visual Information Search.......414 M. Grubinger and C. Leung 3D Graphical Model Retrieval by Evolutionary Computation-based Adaptive Histogram Binning.......420 K. K. T. Cheung, R. H. S. Wong, and H. H. S. Ip Emerging Technologies for Visual Information Systems On the influence of image compression on the performance on content based image retrieval.......426 G. Schaefer and M. Stitch An Approach to Image Compression Using Three-Dimensional DCT.......432 B. Furht and X. Li Scale Saliency: Applications in Visual Matching, Tracking and View-Based Object Recognition.......436 J. S. Hare and P. H. Lewis Model-based Lighting Normalization and its Application in Face Recognition.......441 Z. Lei and J. K. Wu Image Mining using Inexact Maximal Common Subgraph of Multiple ARGs.......446 C. W. Ngo and H. Jiang Machine Intelligence in Content-based Retrieval Recent Parallel Methods for Image Content Interpretation.......450 T. Caelli Video Summarization Using Greedy Method in a Constraint Satisfaction Framework.......456 L. Shi, I. King, and M. R. Lyu Image Classification in the Compressed Domain.......462 C. I. Chiu, R. H. S. Wong, and H. H. S. Ip Feature Integration, Multi-image Queries and Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval.......467 Q. Iqbal and J. K. Aggarwal A Model Learning Approach for Collection Fusion of Distributed Image Libraries.......475 S. Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo, and P. Pala The 2003 International Workshop on Mobile Systems, E-commerce and Agent Technology Agent-Based System A Smart IDS and Response System for Internet Worm Supported by Mobile Agent.......483 Jason C. Hung, Schummi Yang, Han-Bin Chang, and Louis H. Lin An Agent-based Progressive Image Transmission Technology.......489 Jason C. Hung, Schummi Yang, Hsiau-Wen Lin, and Louis H. Lin Designing an Agent-Based Learning Portfolio System.......493 Kuan-Cheng Lin, Shu-Huey Yang, Min-Tzu Wang, and Yi-Ping Huang Designing an Agent-Based Teaching Portfolio System.......497 Kuan-Cheng Lin, Shu-Huey Yang, Yi-Ping Huang, and Min-Tzu Wang Maintaining Mobile Agent in Distributed Environment.......501 Lawrence Y. Deng and Jen-Kuei Peng E-Commerce and Security Security Communication Architecture for Mobile Agents and E-commerce........505 Ronggong Song and Larry Korba Multimedia Computing Environment For Telemedical Applications.......510 V.K. Murthy Automatic Key Replacement Mechanism Using UPnP for Home Network Security.......516 Tzu-Chi Hu and Cheng-Shun Liao Simulation and Analysis of Telecom Business Processes using Agents.......522 Ram Dixit Wireless Network Rescue System Based on Location Aware Information Exchange in Mobile AdHoc Network.......525 Andrey Nikolov, Shigeru Tubota, Terumasa Watanabe, Chikara Ohta, and Kuniaki Uehara An Extenics-based Handover Algorithm for Supporting QoS in Wireless Cellular Network.......531 Liang-Teh Lee, Chia-Ying Tseng, Chen-Feng Wu, Ching-Ren Wei, and Der-Fu Tao Scheduled Share-Tree Multicasting for Bluetooth Networks.......535 San-Yuan Wang, Steen Hsu, Lain-Chyr Hwang, and Ching-Fen Hsieh Access Control for Documents in Ad-hoc Networks.......541 Matei Ciobanu Morogan and Sead Muftic Agent Technology Modified Diffusion Dynamic Load Balancing Employing Mobile Agents.......545 Magdy Saeb and Cherine Fathy Improving Distance Education System using Mobile Agents.......552 R. Ilayaraja and P. Selvaraju SAMARA: Security Architecture Multi-Agent-based Risk Assessment Security Process Management.......557 Gustavo A. Santana Torrellas and Luis A. Villa A Website-Model-Supported New Search Agent.......563 Sheng-Yuan Yang and Cheng-Seen Ho Internet Routing and Parallel Processing An Efficient Routing Protocol on Bluetooth Group-Scatternet Topology.......569 K. P. Shih, Chih-Yung Chang, Sean S. Wang, Jen-Hung Su, and Yan-Da Chen Building a High Speed Switching System Based on the Ring Shift Register Switch Array.......575 Liang-Teh Lee, Der-Fu Tao, Ching-Ren Wei, Chen-Feng Wu, and Hung-Yuan Chang A Data-Driven Architecture in Extenics Environment.......579 Liang-Teh Lee, Ching-Ren Wei , Chen-Feng Wu, and Der-Fu Tao The 2003 International Workshop on Cryptology and Network Security Authentication and System Security Certificate Revocation System based on Peer-to-Peer CRL Distribution.......587 Matei Ciobanu Morogan and Sead Muftic An Unsupervised Network Anomaly Detection System Using Random Projection Technique.......593 Hongmei Deng, Qing-An Zeng, and Dharma P. Agrawal Securing Data Delivery in Ad Hoc Networks.......599 Wenjing Lou and Yuguang Fang System Security A Unified Approach To Detect Binding Based Race Condition Attacks.......605 Bharat Goya, Sriranjani Sitaraman, and S. Venkatesan Role Authorisation with Role Based Access Control.......611 Anthony Rhodes and William Caelli A Tampering Detection Mechanism using The Trusted Host for Mobile Agents.......618 Yuki Kotegawa and Kouichi Sakurai Cryptosystems Design and Analysis AA5: Another analogue cipher of A5.......624 Ya Zhang and Deng-Guo Feng A methodology for numerical evaluation of the computational complexity of AES and Camellia.......628 G. Boato, F. Granelli and E. Tecchio Information Security Projects: An Administration, Technology and Methodology Challenge.......632 Leonardo García Rojas and Agustín F. Gutiérrez Tornes The Characterization of Cryptographic Primitives and Their Security Properties.......636 Ashraf Bhery, Shigeki Hagihara, and Naoki Yonezaki Non-Zero Entropy Ciphertexts (Stochastic Decryption) On The Possibility of One-Time-Pad Class Security With Shorter keys..643 Gideon Samid Attacks on Non-Repudiation Cryptographic Protocol and Its Improvement.......647 Li Li, Li-Na Wang, and Huan-Guo Zhang Public key system and Digital signatures Forward-secure Undeniable Signatures with Fair Anonymity.......651 Song Han, Winson K.Y. Yeung, and Jie Wang RSA-based Fail-Stop Signature Schemes Revisited.......657 Willy Susilo and Yi Mu Verifiable Ring Signature.......663 Jiqiang Lv and Xinmei Wang Cryptanalysis and Security Test An equivalent expression of Rijndael algorithm.......668 Josef Pieprzyk and Xian-Mo Zhang The Editing Generator and Its Cryptanalysis.......673 Guang Gong and Shaoquan Jiang A glimpse to non-linear balanced Boolean functions.......679 Guillermo Morales-Luna An Automatic Security Test Engine for IPv6 Network.......685 Hyeok Chan Kwon, Sang Choon Kim, Jae Hoon Nah, Taek Yong Nam, Sung Won Sohn New methods in security systems and information hiding Using trapdoor permutations in a complete subtree method.......691 Ryo Nojima and Yuichi Kaji Router Numbering Based Packet Marking........698 Dequan Li, Purui Su, and Dengguo Feng A new method for embeding order recovery of digital watermarks.......704 Mario Gonzalez.-Lee, Mariko Nanako Miyatake, and Hector Perez-Meana Security protocols in Network environment e-Mask - A Practical Approach to Ensure Anonymity and Accountability on Internet.......700 S. Canard, S. Guilloteau, E. Malville, and J. Traore An Efficient Distributed Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol.......714 Xunhua Wang and Samuel Redwine Identity-based optimistic fair exchange with transparent signature recovery.......718 Shahrokh Saeednia, Olivier Markowitch, and Yves Roggeman EIGMP: Enhanced IGMP for secure multicast key management.......722 Jianping Wang, Qiong Zhang, and Biao Chen Private Certified E-mail Systems with Electronic Notice Board.......726 Kenji Imamoto and Kouichi Sakurai An adaptive secure multicast system supporting mobile working.......730 M. Blanc, C. Toinard, Mahery Andriambololona, L. Barther, Bruno Doolaeghe, M. Hervieux, K. K. Hassani, Pascal Lefeuvre, and T. Meurisse The 2003 International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies Communication Technologies A Broadcasting Scheme with Supporting VCR functions for Near Video-on-Demand Systems.......737 Yu-Wei Chen, Yi-Ta Lee, and Ming-Hsiang Tsai FTTB Broadband Service Problem Management.......743 C. Y. Chen, Lawrence Y. Deng, J. K. Peng, C. H. Chen, J. H. Wang, C. W. Chang, and L.S. Wu Applying Wireless Technologies on Constructing a Mobile Learning Environment for Ubiquitous Learning.......747 Chih-Yung Chang, Kuei-Ping Shih, Shih-Chieh Lee, and Chih-Min Wang Congestion Control of Bluetooth Radio System by Piconet Restructuring.......753 Gwo-Jong Yu and Chih-Yuan Chang Add Long Distance Education to Business Modernization Management Mode ~ An Implementation in upgrading “Traditional Hand-Made” Business.......759 Huay Chang, Yong Su, Chih-Yung Chen, Shieh-Shing Lin, and Dong-Liang Lee Using SOAP and .NET Web Service to Build SCORM RTE and LMS Mechanism.......765 Ko-Shung Chen, Timothy K. Shih, Nigel H. Lin, Wen-Chih Chang, and Keith Hsieh Educational Technologies Aligning Learning, Teaching and Assessment using Web-Based Portfolio Systems.......771 Kuan-Cheng Lin, Shu-Huey Yang, Min-Tai Chou, and Jeff T.C. Lee An Automated Question Answering System for e-Learning.......776 Hui-huang Hsu, Schummi Yang, and Timothy K. Shih Question and Test Authoring System based on SCORM.......782 Dong-Liang Lee, Lawrence Y. Deng, Timothy K. Shih, Wen-Chih Chang, Yi-Chun Liao, Hung-Chang Chen, and Hsiau-Wen Lin Distance Learning Of Nondestructive Evaluation Education.......788 Rwei-Ching Chang, Chon-Gi Chen, and Tsai-Cheng Li A Web-Base 3D Object search engine with Agent.......792 Chun-Hong Huang, Ching-Sheng Wang, and Lawrence Y. Deng Development Strategy and Cooperation for Distance-learning between Taiwan and Mainland China.......798 Tang Jenn, Chin-Yung Chen, Dong-Liang Lee, and Jih-Fu Tu Intelligence Technologies Theoretical Model Study of Polarization Mode Dispersion in an Transverse Traveling-Wave Electro-Optic Phase Modulator...802 Jian-Jyh Kao Automobile SSD Alert System.......806 Ming-Chih Lu, Yin-Tuei Hsu, and Jih-Fu Tu Exploiting Colored Petri Net to Displace Finite Static Machine for Modulo-P Counter.......810 Hsichien Yu, Jih-Fu Tu, Chih-Yung Chen, Jenn Tang, and Dong-Liang Lee Exploiting the Request-queue Methodology for Implementing Processor Communication.......814 Chih-Yung Chen, Jih-Fu Tu, Jenn Tang, Dong-Liang Lee, and Hsichien Yu Using Finite State Diagram for Modeling the Communication Among Processors.......818 Dong-Liang Lee, Chih-Yung Chen, Jih-Fu Tu, Hsichien Yu, Tsai-Cheng Li, and Jerry Tang An Research In Intelligent Equipment for Earthquake Detecting.......824 Huay Chang, Rwei-Ching Chang, Shieh-Shing Lin, Chun-Liang Hsu, Cheng-Chien Kuo, and Tzu-Wei Yang A Genetic based QoS Approach in Multimedia Services Architecture.......828 ChunHsien Chen, Teh-Sheng Huang, Lawrance Y. Deng, Hui-huang Hsu VoiceXML Lite: A Standards-Based Framework For Speech-Enabling Applications Executing On Commodity Networked Mobile Devices...833 Stuart Goose, Sreedhar Kodlahalli, Klaus Lukas Reviewers.......838 Authors’ Index.......840