MULTIMEDIA: COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

July, 1995
Ralf Steinmetz, IBM, Heidelberg, Germany
Klara Nahrstedt, University of PA, Philadelphia, PA
Copyright 1996, 880 pp., Cloth (0-13-324435-0)
Prentice Hall

Providing an overview of the most current research and development  areas
in multimedia, as well as current ongoing project applications,  this book
takes a world view of the technology, discussing developments  in the
U.S., the Far East, as well as Europe.

Features:

* Provides a unique analysis of resource management in multimedia
  communications systems.
* Discusses important design and implementation issues for  operating
  systems supporting multimedia systems.
* Explains the application of network technology for the support  of
  multimedia transmission.
* Covers technical areas, such as the representation and behavior
  of different media, data compression with respect to multimedia,
  multimedia hardware, computer technology, operating system support,
  support of  network and communication systems, characteristics of
  multimedia databases, multimedia documents, abstraction of
  multimedia programming, and current multimedia applications.
 
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