Isn't Everything Online Yet? Streaming Media and Electronic Reserves

Analysis of Streaming Media Systems Analysis of Streaming Media Systems

Cooperative Media Processing and Streaming

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have emerged as a large-scale, distributed platform for resource sharing that offers cost effectiveness, increased autonomy, scalability, and reliability. Even though P2P systems have been used successfully for sharing static multimedia files, using overlay networks to serve dynamic multimedia content has only recently received attention. Applications include Internet...

Streaming-Media Knowledge Discovery

T he proliferation of powerful Web-based search engines that efficiently index and search large document collections has made it easier for the casual user to search and browse text documents on the Web. Although several portals provide comprehensive text information, we have yet to see a similarly comprehensive resource list for locating relevant information in streaming media, whether via sea...

Streaming Media Caching

Streaming media has contributed to a significant amount of today’s Internet traffic. Like conventional web objects (e.g., HTML pages and images), media objects can benefit from proxy caching; yet their unique features such as huge size and high bandwidth demand imply that conventional proxy caching strategies have to be substantially revised. This chapter discusses the critical issues and chall...

Online Streaming Feature Selection

In the paper, we consider an interesting and challenging problem, online streaming feature selection, in which the size of the feature set is unknown, and not all features are available from learning while leaving the number of observations constant. In this problem, the candidate features arrive one at a time, and the learner's task is to select a “best so far” set of features from streaming f...