Multimedia Changes the World.

A World of Changes: The Inheritance of COVID-19

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Behavioral changes in the organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC) in the crude oil world market

The main aim of this survey is to investigate the evolution of the OPEC mode of behavior and link the evolution to some important events in the (global) crude oil market. The dominant conclusion of this survey confirms that the primary purpose of OPEC has been to coordinate and unify the petroleum policies of its member countries, in order to secure their individual and collective interests. OP...

Multimedia Information Systems in Open-world Domains

The use of diierent media types in information systems allows to communicate semantically expressive data of problems encountered in open-world domains. As a consequence, new methodologies have to be developed to cope with the rich semantics of data in such multimedia information systems. We present Werkl, a system architecture that takes into account the dependency between the semantic and the...

Searching for Multimedia on the World Wide Web

The proliferation of multimedia on the World Wide Web has led to the introduction of Web search engines for images, video, and audio. On the Web, multimedia is typically embedded within documents that provide a wealth of indexing information. Harsh computational constraints imposed by the economics of advertising-supported searches restrict the complexity of analysis that can be performed at qu...