Systems and methods of generating and modifying a playlist using contextual information
are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed Such as a song name or artist …

Due to the technical developments in electronics the amount of digital content is
continuously increasing. In order to make digital content respectively multimedia content …

In this paper, we look at the problem of disk scheduling in a multimedia I/O system. In a
multimedia server, the disk requests may have constant data rate requirements and need …

Sleep modes of wireless network cards are used to switch these cards into low-power state
when idle, but large timeout periods and frequent wake-ups can reduce the utility of this …

Systems and methods of generating and modifying a playlist using contextual information
are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed Such as a song name or artist …

This article provides a retrospective of our original paper by the same title in the
Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Multimedia, published in 1993. This article …

The performance and capacity of commodity com-puter systems have improved drastically in
recent years. However, these systems still lack the support for real-time data access, which …

Most frequently used subdivision schemes such as Catmull-Clark create regular regions
after several applications. This paper shows that all semi-regular regions can be created by …

Distributed multimedia applications require support from the underlying operating system to
achieve and maintain their desired Quality of Service (QoS). This has led to the creation of …

Internet services like the world-wide web and multimedia applications like news-and video-
on-demand have become very popular over the last years. Since a high and rapidly …