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Cooperative Multimedia Information Systems

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Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management

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Cooperative MMIS are increasingly gaining importance for multimedia information creation and dissemination in distributed teams. This chapter discusses relevant issues on cooperative aspects of Multimedia Information Systems (MMIS) and provides an insight into a variety of applications, technical constraints, and architectures enhancing efficient information dissemination and collaboration among people. Thus this chapter will offer breadth by reviewing the state of the art of commercial systems as well as research prototypes rather than details of one particular system.

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    David Dagan Feng PhD

  3. Microsoft Research, Asia, China

    Hong-Jiang Zhang PhD

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Dustdar, S. (2003). Cooperative Multimedia Information Systems. In: Feng, D.D., Siu, WC., Zhang, HJ. (eds) Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05300-3_15

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