Document Type
Working Paper
Date
1990
Embargo Period
7-29-2012
Keywords
user-oriented multimedia information systems, managing diverse data types, multimedia servers, database management, object synchronization, object integration
Language
English
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Description/Abstract
In the past few years considerable demand for user oriented multimedia information systems has developed. These systems must provide a rich set of functionality so that new, complex, and interesting applications can be addressed. This places considerable importance on the management of diverse data types including text, images, audio and video. These requirements generate the need for a new generation of distributed heterogeneous multimedia database systems. In this paper we identify a set of functional requirements for a multimedia server considering database management, object synchronization and integration, and multimedia query processing. A generalization of the requirements to a distributed system is presented, and some of our current research and developing activities are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Berra, P. B.; Chen, C.Y.R.; Ghafoor, A.; and Lin, C. C., "An Architecture for distributed multimedia database systems" (1990). Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Paper 28.
http://surface.syr.edu/eecs/28
Additional Information
Computer Communications, (Special Issue: Multimedia Communications), Vol. 13, No. 4, May 1990, pp. 217-231.