Dealing with uncertain durations in synchronized multimedia presentations

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 213-231

  Kiss, A ^a   Li, L ^a   Gettemeier, T ^a   Venkatesh, L K ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic formatting; Multimedia; Scheduling; Synchronization; Uncertain durations

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; SYNCHRONIZATION; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

DESYNCHRONIZATION; DYNAMIC FORMATTING;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036887939     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019944800320     Document Type: Article

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