Middleware support for distributed multimedia and collaborative computing

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 1285-1312

  Birman, Kenneth P ^a   Friedman, Roy ^b   Hayden, Mark ^a   Rhee, Injong ^c  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA STRUCTURES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

MIDDLEWARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS); SOFTWARE PACKAGE MAESTRO;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 0033279477     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(19991210)29:14<1285::AID-SPE281>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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