Developing multimedia applications entails understanding a variety of advanced technologies; in addition, multimedia programming poses a significant challenge in terms of handling a variety of hardware devices, multimedia formats or communication protocols. Therefore, breakthrough software engineering technologies should be applied to produce reference architectures able to support ever-changin...

GroupLab Collabrary is a toolkit for rapidly prototyping multimedia groupware. It provides a straightforward API to managing and distributing multimedia information between groupware program instances. The Collabrary also has a culture of use, where a small generic set of useful groupware programming patterns has evolved over time. In this workshop I will describe the Collabrary, what it offers...

Recently, Web-based GIS applications have become important tools for disseminating geographical information in digital map format on the Internet because of their platform independence, interactivity, and wide accessibility. This trend brings about new insights on the integration of Web-based GIS and multimedia on the Internet since multimedia has already been seen as the strength of Internet a...

The development of distributed multimedia technology has the potential to both create new application areas and augment those that pre-existed. To benefit from this potential, however, it is important to ensure that application developers are provided with system services which help them achieve their objectives. Developers of distributed systems, therefore, must fully understand the nature of ...

The development of multimedia technology and network technology, training has become inevitable. Multimedia is the best means communication, education a society with its own characteristics. In this article, we discuss model for teaching technologies in web necessity, also fully consider applications education.