Interactive multimedia documents: a modeling, authoring and rendering approach

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-188

  Vazirgiannis, M ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Tsirikos, D ^b   Markousis, Thanos ^b   Trafalis, Michalis ^b   Stamati, Y ^b   Hatzopoulos, Michael ^b   Sellis, Timos ^c,g,h  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e FRAUNHOFER IPSI   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Fern Universitaet ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPLEX INTERACTIONS; INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS; MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034325361     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009615607646     Document Type: Article

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