, attribute the Web's continuing development crisis to the failure of commercial browsers to fully implement agreed-upon standards. This is an important issue: Nonconfor-mant and incomplete implementations have been a nightmare for Web developers. However, there is a deeper issue— one that has had little public discussion: Will these standards actually provide the envisioned benefits for the We...

This paper describes the TDO model of media, which describes media as they are viewing by multimedia authors and the authoring software they use. This model is the basis of the MSPEC medium specification language, which is used to configure a style sheet system for multimedia authoring systems. The TDO model is compared to two other models drawn from multimedia and intelligent systems research ...

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language constitutes a key component of web applications. It offers a series of sophisticated features to stylize web pages. Its apparent simplicity and power are however counter-balanced by the difficulty of debugging and maintaining style sheets, tasks for which developers still lack appropriate tools. In particular, significant portions of CSS code become eit...

The purpose of this paper is to show a contributor the required style for a paper for ECAI 98. The specifications for layout are described so that non-LATEX users can create their own style sheet to achieve the same layout. The source for the sample file is available for LATEX users. The PostScript file is available for all. 1 GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS The following details should allow contributo...

Content based image retrieval is the task of retrieve the images from the large collection of database on the basis of their own visual content. This paper provides the survey of technical achievements in the research area of image retrieval, especially content based image retrieval (CBIR. Color and texture are commonly used in most of the CBIR system for finding similar images from the databas...

As more and more digital documents become available for the public use from diierent sources, also the needs of the users increase. Seamless integration of heterogenous collections, e.g., a possibility to query and format documents in a uniform way, is one of these needs. Processing of documents is greatly enhanced if the structure of documents is explicitly represented by some standard (SGML, ...

This articles submits the thesis that visual data modeling and programming languages are conveniently conceived as rendering, or ‘styling’, of conventional, textual languages. Styling has become a widespread technique with the advent of the Web and of the markup language XML. With XML, application data can be modeled after the application logic regardless of the intended rendering. Rendering of...

How should a standardization body such as the IEEE deal with patents and copyrights on technology essential to using a standard? A recent controversy within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, ) over a Microsoft patent illustrates the kind of problem that can arise when intellectual property rights cloud users' right of access to a standard. As yet, the IEEE has not developed...

In this paper, we describe a technique for representing the results of computational models by exploiting the power and expressivity of the Extensible Markup Language, XML. This uniform representation facilitates sharing of information on the Internet, as well as viewing by many tools, such as c , c , c , or a web browser. We allow the user of the application to choose the desired file format. ...

Proxima is a generic presentation-oriented XML editor with support for derived values appearing in the documents. Xprez is the presentation language for the Proxima editor. It is a declarative domainspecific language for specifying presentations, in which it is easy to specify simple presentations, but in which more advanced presentations can also be specified. Presentations are first-class val...