DMS 2004 PROCEEDINGS The 10th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Sponsored by Knowledge Systems Institute, USA Technical Program September 8-10, 2004 Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay, USA Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute Table of Contents Foreword.......iii Conference Organization.......iv Keynote Papers Visualization for RFID/Auto-ID Initiative.......1 Tao Lin Reenvisioning Visual Information Systems: From Signal Analysis to Context-Aware Media Computing.......2 Marc Davis A Chronobot for Time and Knowledge Exchange.......3 S. K. Chang The Dao of Unihan.......7 John Jenkins DMS Papers Distance and mobile learning SCORM-Compliant Reader on Pocket PC.......11 Timothy K. Shih, Nigel H. Lin, Hsuan-Pu Chang, Yuan-Kai Chiu, Huan-Chi Huang Special Tags for supporting SCORM-Compliant learning Environment.......17 Te-Hua Wang, Yuan-Kai Chiu, Timothy K. Shih, Nigel H. Lin, Wen-Chih Chang and Chia-Tong Tang A Semantic-based Automated Question Answering System for e-Learning.......23 Che-Yu Yang, Mao-Shuen Chiu, Chao-Hsun Yang and Timothy K. Shih AudioPeer: A Collaborative Distributed Audio Chat System.......29 Roger Zimmermann, Beomjoo Seo, Leslie S. Liu, Rahul S. Hampole, Brent Nash Multi-modal interactions Design of Multimedia Instant Messaging System with Annotation.......35 Zon-Yin Shae, Xiping Wang, Ferdinand Hendriks Biometrics Identification Based on Temporal Templates of Visual Hand Movements.......41 Sanjay Kumar, Dinesh K Kumar, Arun Sharma, and Neil McLachlan Usable multimodal multimedia application intended for disabled persons.......47 Samir Benarif, Hichem Djenidi, Amar Ramdane-Cherif, Nicole Levy Events and human-computer interactions Chambre: A distributed environment for the production of multimedia events.......51 Paolo Bottoni, Stefano Faralli, Anna Labella, Claudio Scozzafava TANDEM-Transmitting Asynchronous Non Deterministic and Deterministic Events in Multimedia Systems over the Internet.....57 Angela Guercio and Arvind K. Bansal Visual Editor for Designing and Editing Algorithmic Skeletons.........63 Rentaro Yoshioka, Yuho Tsuchida, Nikolay Mirenkov Visual Representation and Editing System for Formula Sequence Specification and Variable Declaration.......69 Dmitry Vazhenin, Nikolay Mirenkov, Alexander Vazhenin Virtual and Augmented Reality, Distributed Multimedia Documents PARIS: Fusing Vision-based Location Tracking with Standards-based 3D Visualization and Speech Interaction on a PDA......75 Stuart Goose, Sinem Güven, Xiang Zhang, Sandra Sudarsky, Nassir Navab EVE - II: An Integrated Platform for Networked Virtual Environments.......81 Ch. Bouras, A. Panagopoulos, N. Theoharis, Th. Tsiatsos A State-Transition Model for Distributed Multimedia Documents.......86 Paola Bertolotti, Ombretta Gaggi, Maria Luisa Sapino Multimedia streaming Efficient Patching Scheduling for a Multimedia Streaming Proxy.......93 Kuei-Jone Chang, Yan-Yo Lin, Tien-Fu Chen Adaptive Packet Size Assignment for Scalable Video Transmission Over Burst Error Channel.......99 Chu-Sing Yang, Chen-Wei Lee, and Yih-Ching Su A Study on a New Queue Management and Scheduling Technique for a Remote Technical Consultation System.......104 Rafael A. Sierra and Fumitaka Uchio CHIPS: An End-System Multicast Framework for P2P Media Streaming.......110 Son Vuong, Xin Liu, Ankur Upadhyaya and Jun Wang Adaptive Video Transmission Over a Single Wireless Link.......116 Hao Wang, S. Venkatesan Conditional Replenishment Based Multi-Path Transport and Rate Control for Video Streaming in Ad Hoc Networks.......122 Hua Zhu, Imrich Chlamtac Performance Enhancement of TFRC in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.......127 Mingzhe Li, Choong-Soo Lee, Emmanuel Agu, Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki Quality of Service Communication Protocol for Atomic and Causally Ordered Delivery of Multimedia Messages.......133 Satoshi Itaya, Tomoya Enokido, and Makoto Takizawa Video-on-Demand for P2P Communities.......139 Andrea Calvagna, Livio Di Lorenzo, Giuseppe Tropea A Threshold based Multicast Technique in a Distributed VoD System with Customer Reneging Behavior.......145 Sonia Gonzalez, Angeles Navarro, Juan Lopez, Emilio L. Zapata A Case for A Mobility Based Admission Control Policy.......151 Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Tooraj Helmi, Shyam Kapadia, Bhaskar Krishnamachari Network modeling and collaborative applications The COMODIN System: A CDN-based Platform for Cooperative Media On-Demand on the InterNet.......157 Giancarlo Fortino, Carlos E. Palau, Wilma Russo, Manuel Esteve Activity Sensing Floor Control in Multimedia Collaborative Applications.......163 Kostas Katrinis, Georgios Parissidis and Bernhard Plattner MORA: a movement-based routing algorithm for ad hoc networks.......171 Giulia Boato and Fabrizio Granelli Agent and retrieval systems A Middleware System for Flexible Intercommunications.......175 Koji Hashimoto and Yoshitaka Shibata Toward a Multi-Mobile Agent System on Semantic Web Service: Design Support in Supply Chain.......181 Daisuke Maruyama, Incheon Paik, Yuu Watanabe Load-Balancing in Distributed Retrieval System.......186 Ming Hong Pi, Anup Basu and Hua Li Library architecture for searching software components by their algorithmic features.......190 Yutaka Watanobe, Rentaro Yoshioka, Nikolay N. Mirenkov Editing and Compression of Multimedia Documents Video Editing with Change of Camera Motion.......196 Masahito Hirakawa and Kasumi Nakashita A New Post-processing Method for VQ Compressed Image.......201 Ju-Yuan Hsiao, Kai-Jung Shih, A-Pei Tsai Dynamic Motion Estimation Search Window Size Calculation in H.264 Standard Video Coder.......207 Gianluca Bailo, Massimo Bariani, Ivano Barbieri, Marco Raggio VLC Papers Visualizing the Construction of Decision Trees Using Treemaps.......213 Christiane Santana Using Visualization to Bring Context Information to Software Engineering Model Building.......219 Daniela Cruzes, Manoel Mendonca, José Carlos Maldonado, Mario Jino Visual Analysis of Data from Empirical Studies.......225 Rog´erio Eduardo Garcia, Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira, Jos´e Carlos Maldonado, and Manoel Mendonca Visualizing Software Architecture: a Code Driven Approach.......231 Eric Wong, Yu Qi PDAGraph: Event-Driven, Visual Scripting for Handheld Computers.......235 Shea Armstrong, Yael Kollet, and Trevor J. Smedley Visualizing Intra-procedural Data-flow Interactions to Help Locate Faults.......241 Marcel R. Karam and Trevor J. Smedley Towards Comprehensible Control Flow in Visual Data Flow Languages.......247 Anthony Cox, Simon Gauvin, and Trevor Smedley Control Constructs in Visual Meta-Programming Language.......253 Mikhail Auguston An Interactive Visual Query Interface on Spatial/temporal Data.......257 Xin Li and S. K. Chang Visual specification of spatial/temporal queries in a sensor data independent information system.......263 Karin Silvervarg, Erland Jungert and Tobias Horney Modeling and Retrieval of Multimedia Data in Temporal Semantic Abstraction.......269 Jianfeng Yan, Zhanhuai Li, Yan Tang Smart Decision Module for Streaming 3D Meshes over Lossy Networks.......275 Hui Li, Parinkumar Shah, and B. Prabhakaran Generating Proofs with Spider Diagrams Using Heuristics.......279 Jean Flower, Judith Masthoff and Gem Stapleton Two-way exchange of knowledge through visual annotation.......286 Daniela Fogli, Giuseppe Fresta, Andrea Marcante, and Piero Mussio An XML Schema for Sharing Geometric Information Between Mobile Robots.......292 Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr. Content-based Image Retrieval Combining Shape Recognition, Color and Text.......298 Donggang Yu, Wei Lai, and Jiro Tanaka Obstacles to the industrial use of visual programming.......304 Philip T. Cox and Lei Dong VIS Papers Query refinement and benchmarking An Architecture for Interactive Query Refinement in Sensor-based Information Fusion Systems.......315 G. Casella, S. K. Chang, G. Costagliola, E. Jungert, X. Li and T. Horney Using Relevance Feedback in Multimedia Databases.......322 Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana, Eamonn Keogh Incremental Benchmark Development and Administration.......328 M. Grubinger, Clement Leung Benchmarking image retrieval applications.......334 Henning Mueller, A.Geissbuhler, S.Marchand–Maillet, P.Clough Visual features for indexing and retrieval Constructing 3D Point Correspondence for Vasculature using Approximate Parallelism.......338 Jun. Feng, Horace H. S. Ip, and Shuk H. Cheng CVPIC based uniform/non-uniform colour histograms for compressed domain image retrieval.......344 Gerald Schaefer and Simon Lieutaud Toward Semantics Level Indexing and retrieval of images and video.......349 Jian Kang Wu, Joohwee Lim and Dezhong Hong MSEAT Papers Mobile Agent and Networking Routing-Profitable MAC protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.......357 San-Yuan Wang, Chia-Hsu Kuo, Tzu-Chiang Ma, Lain-Chyr Hwang, Chia-Hsu Kuo A Framework of Online Chain Store Integrated with Recommendation Mechanism.......361 Jason C. Hung, Schummi Yang A Minimum Delay Routing Protocol for Bluetooth Radio Networks.......367 Gwo-Jong Yu and Wei-Chen Hwang Stock Price Prediction Agent Based on Gray Theory.......371 Kuan-Cheng Lin, Jeff T. C. Lee, Min-Tzu Wang and Shu-Huey Yang The Use of Accumulated User Mobility for Supporting Quality of Service in Mobile Cellular Systems.......375 Liang-Teh Lee, Chen-Feng Wu, Ching-Ren Wei, and Der-Fu Tao Scheduling and Control for Multimedia in Networks A Design of Clustered Computing Environment for Multimedia Processing.......379 Liang-Teh Lee, Ching-Ren Wei, Chen-Feng Wu Formation and Routing Protocols for Bluetooth Scatternets with Heap Structures.......383 Tzung-Shi Chen and Hsin-Yi Ke Adaptive Layer-Based Scheduling for Real-Time Transmission on Scalable Multimedia Stream.......389 Chia-Ying Tseng, Liang-Teh Lee, Yu-Lan Shih, Kang-Yuan Liu Design and Implementation of a Bluetooth Ad-hoc Presentation System.......393 Shih-Yao Lee, Kuei-Ping Shih, Chien-Min Chou, and Hung-Chang Chen Eliminating Conflicts of a Coordination System over Construction of Plans.......397 Anthony Y. Chang A Signature Verification Based User Interface Agent for Learning Portfolio System.......403 Wei-Hsien Wu, Jeng-Horng Chang, Ping-Lin Fan, Min-Tai Chou, Hui-Fen Chiang Real-time Person authentication in E-learning Environments by FAFVS.......407 Jeng-Horng Chang, Wei-Hsien Wu, Hui-Fen Chiang Exchange Rate Prediction Agent Based on Gray Theory.......411 Kuan-Cheng Lin, Min-Tzu Wang, Jeff T. C. Lee and Shu-Huey Yang An Agent-Based Admission Control for the Bounded Delay Services.......415 Kuan-Cheng Lin, Ren-Jing Huang and Yen-Ping Chu Routing and Scheduling in Networks An Efficient Multipath Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.......421 Shih-Lin Wu and Shih-Jen Wu, Shing-kai Wang A Mobile Recommender via Location Agent.......427 Chuan-Feng Chiu, Jason C. Hung and Yi-Ping Huang A Mobile Learning Platform for Supporting Outclass English Learning Activities.......431 Chih-Yung Chang, Kuei-Ping Shih, Gwo-Jong Yu, Shih-Chieh Lee, Hsu-Ruey Chang Identity-Based Instant Broadcast in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.......435 Yi Mu and Willy Susilo DET Papers Communication Technologies CHRONOBOT: A Time and Knowledge Exchange System for E-learning and Distance Education.......443 Shi-Kuo Chang and Ganesh Santhanakrishnan An Intelligent Web Information Aggregation System Based upon Intelligent Retrieval, Filtering and Integration.......451 Sheng-Yuan Yang and Cheng-Seen Ho An Efficient Process and Strategy to Upgrade Traditional Copy Center.......457 Huay Chang, Shieh-Shing Lin, Yong Su, Feng-Jih Wu The Applications of IA for the Emergency Systems.......461 Dong-liang Lee, Lawrence Y. Deng, Ching Hsu Chan, and Chin-Yung Yu Educational Technologies The Study of the VoiceXML-Compliant Interactive Voice Navigation System.......467 Jenn Tang, Chih-Yung Chen, Tin J. Gou An Efficient Method to Analyze The Relationship Between Music and Brand Positioning ~ A Practical Analysis In Fast-Food Product And Cosmetic Product.......473 Yong Su, Huay Chang, Shieh-Shing Lin Study on Application of GIS to the Cadastral Data Management........479 Kune-Yao Chen, Chih-Yung Chen, Ginn-Yein Chen, Ming-Zong Zheng Intelligence Technologies A Preliminary Study of an Intelligent Self Diagnostics System.......483 Chang-Ching Lin, Bruce Huang, Tien-Lun Liu An Intelligent Fuzzy Controller for Perturbed Time-Delay Systems with Nonlinear Input.......487 Fang-Ming Yu, Tsai-Cheng Li, and Huan-Wen Wu MIDI-Based Audio Recording/Playing System with Smaller Data Quantity.......491 Hsin-Chuan Chen and Chen-Chien Hsu ICCLC Papers An Intelligent System for Learning and Indexing Chinese Characters.......497 Eileen V. Moy, Kai Chu, Cindy Katri and Lee Henderson A Chinese Character Database and Query System.......500 Kai Chu, Eileen V. Moy, Cindy Katri, Harold Ricker and Lee Henderson A Systemic View on Mandarin-based Computer-Assisted Language Teaching and Learning.......503 Yoon Fah Chuan and Chee Weng Khong Contrastive Analysis and Feature Selection for Korean Predicate Generation in Chinese-Korean Machine Translation System..507 Jin-Ji Li, Dong-Il Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee Story Representation based on Term Distribution on Timelines for Chinese News Event Link Detection.......514 Hainan Jin, Dongun An Handwritten Chinese Character Font Generation Using Stroke Correspondence.......518 Jungpil Shin and Kazunori Suzuki Chinese Unknown Word Identification Based on Local Bigram Model with Integrally Smoothing Assumption.......524 Zhuoran Wang and Ting Liu Reviewers.......529 Authors Index.......532