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W14: QPMIDS

Fifth International Workshop on Query Processing and Multimedia Issues in Distributed Systems

Organizer: Frederic Andres (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Monday, September 3, 2001

9.00 – 10.00 Invited Talk for all participants of DEXA 2001 Events

XML Databases: Modeling and multidimensional Indexing

Prof. Rudolf Bayer, Institut für Informatik, TU-München

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break

10.30 - 12.30 Multimedia Model and Processing Session

"On the Design of Copyright Protection Protocols for Multimedia Distribution

Using Symmetric and Public-Key Watermarking"

Stefan Katzenbeisser (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

"Model Discovery with the TAIM Intelligent Visual Database"

F Cyrus Nourani (METAAI, Inc, USA)

"Robust Frame-Based Watermarking For Digital Video"

M. Barni, F. Bartolini, R. Caldelli, V. Cappellini, A. De Rosa, and A. Piva (University of Florence, Italy)

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Multimedia Tool And Multimedia Design Session

"Xanadu: XML- and Active-Database-Unified Approach to Distributed E-Commerce"

Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shohei Yokoyama, Seiji Isshiki, Manabu Ohta, Tokyo Metropolitan University, JP)

"Distributed Television Production for Distance Education with a Customizable Internet Platform"

Susanne Naegele-Jackson (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

"Definition and Application of Rules for the Adequate Designing of XML Documents for the Hyper-Automaton System"

Cesar C. Machado (CEFET-RS, Brasil)

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break

Special Track on "Image-Based Geospatial Databases"

16.00 - 17.30  Invited Talk

"Query evaluation and presentation planning within a spatial mediator: extending XML-based mediation to heterogeneous sources of GIS and imagery data"

Dr. Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California -San Diego

18.00 Welcome Party

Tuesday, September 4, 2001

Special Track on "Image-Based Geospatial Databases"

10.30 - 12.30 Session

"A Study on the Indexing of Satellite Images at NASA Regional Application Center"

Chiara Ghirardini, Soon Ae Chun, Vijay Atluri, Ibrahim Kamel, Nabil R. Adam, University of Milan, CIMIC-Rutgers University, Panasonic Research

"Spatiotemporal Lifelines in Support of Video Queries"

Anthony Stefanidis, Panos Partsinevelos, Kristin Eickhorst, Peggy Agouris, University of Maine, USA

"Web-Enabled Raster GIS Services for Large Image and Map Databases"

Peter Baumann, Active Knowledge GmbH, Germany

"Registration of Maps using Deformable Contours in a Global Atlas"

Fiona Lee, Liau Chu Yee, Stephane Bressan, University of Singapore