conjures up many emotions and responses—it often refers to anything that uses visual and acoustic data. As a result, some may brush multimedia off as just a marketing slogan. However, many universities have recently introduced degree courses in multimedia. This article attempts to define the scope and basis for a multimedia discipline. R ecently, a flurry of educational institutions has rushed ...

Conceptual Modeling Of Multimedia Databases The gap between the semantic content of multimedia data and its underlying physical representation is one of the main problems in the modern multimedia research in general, and, in particular, in the field of multimedia database modeling. We believe that one of the principal reasons of this problem is the attempt to conceptually represent multimedia d...

this study was motivated by the researchers’ goal to unfold the quality of the english translations of persian tourism industry texts and discover the most frequent error patterns the iranian non-native translators have committed in such texts. thus, the following research questions were addressed: 1) are the english versions of persian tourist guidebooks and multimedia compact discs provided b...

Current database management system techniques are insuucient to support the management of multimedia data owing to their time-sampled nature. The extension of database systems to support multimedia applications thus requires new mechanisms to ensure the synchronized presentation of multimedia data streams. In order to exibly and eeciently present multimedia data streams to users, media streams ...