International conference on information technology: coding and computing Book

	Message from the General Chair
	Keynote I
	Keynote II
	Conference Committee
	On Arabic-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Machine Translation Approach	2
	Automatic Query Expansion Based on Directed Divergence	8
	Improve Precategorized Collection Retrieval by Using Supervised Term Weighting Schemes	16
	Improving Precision and Recall for Soundex Retrieval	22
	Efficient Key-Frame Extraction and Video Analysis	28
	Internet Browsing: Visualizing Category Map by Fisheye and Fractal Views	34
	Trends in Multimedia Web Searching: Excite Queries	40
	Recruitment Filtering with Personality-Job Fit Model	46
	A Fast Non-Linear Adaptive Algorithm for Video Traffic Prediction	54
	Prioritized Optimal Server Side Bandwidth Allocation in a Multimedia Session with Push and Pull Sources	59
	SPEM Online Rate Control for Realtime Streaming Video	65
	Joint Source-Channel Coding Using Simplified Block-Based Segmentation and Content-Based Rate-Control for Wireless Video Transport	71
	Format-Compliant Selective Scrambling for Multimedia Access Control	77
	An Architecture for Delivering Broadband Video over the Internet	542
	What is Acceptable Quality in the Application of Digital Watermarking: Trade-offs of Security, Robustness and Quality	80
	Enhancing Watermark Robustness through Mixture of Watermarked Digital Objects	85
	Perceptual Quality Assessment for Video Watermarking	90
	Power: A Metric for Evaluating Watermarking Algorithms	95
	Audio Watermarking Quality Evaluation: Robustness to DA/AD Processes	100
	Error Resilient Image Communication Using Content-Based Multiple Description Coding	106
	On a Certain Class of Algorithms for Noise Removal in Image Processing: A Comparative Study	111
	A Classified and Comparative Study of Edge Detection Algorithms	117
	Euler Vector: A Combinatorial Signature for Gray-Tone Images	121
	Self-Adjusted Network Transmission for Multimedia Data	128
	Performance of Multimedia Applications with IPSec Tunneling	134
	A Study of Encrypted, Tunneling Models in Virtual Private Networks	139
	An Automatic Cache Cooperative Environment Using ICP	144
	Invertible Spread-Spectrum Watermarking for Image Authentication and Multilevel Access to Precision-Critical Watermarked Images	152
	Watermarking in Online Media E-Business	158
	Maintaining Consistency of the Security Policy Using Timestamp Ordering	164
	The Advanced Encryption Standard and its Application in the Examination Security in Vietnam	171
	Healthcare Information Systems Using Digital Signature and Synchronized Smart Cards via the Internet	177
	The Extended Rijndael-like Block Ciphers	183
	Utilising Audio-Visual Stimuli in Interactive Information Systems: A Two Domain Investigation on Auditory Metaphors	190
	Providing an Infrastructure for a Cross Database Management Tool	196
	IT Infrastructure Management and Standards	201
	Parallel Execution of Relational Algebra Operator Under Distributed Database Systems	207
	Results Processing in a Heterogeneous Word	212
	Performance of KDB-Trees with Query-Based Splitting	218
	MIRE: A Multidimensional Information Retrieval Engine for Structured Data and Text	224
	Experimental Results Towards Content-Based Sub-Image Retrieval	230
	Analysis of Combining Multiple Query Representations with Varying Lengths in a Single Engine	236
	Determining the Usefulness of Manually Assigned Keywords for a Vector Space System	242
	The Object Behavior of Java Object-Oriented Database Management Systems	247
	FCBHS: A Fast Center-Biased Hybrid Search Algorithm for Fast Block Motion Estimation	254
	High Resolution Full Spherical Videos	260
	Recovering 3D Metric Structure and Motion from Multiple Uncalibrated Cameras	268
	Contour Based Matching Technique for 3D Object Recognition	274
	SUGGEST: A Web Usage Mining System	282
	Querying Semi-Structured Data with Graph Grammars	288
	STED: A System for Topic Enumeration and Distillation	294
	Mask and Multiple Format: Two Notions for a Progressive and Adapted Access to Information	300
	Design and Generation of Adaptable Web Information Systems with KIWIS	306
	Characterizing Web User Accesses: A Transactional Approach to Web Log Clustering	312
	Web-Based Information Access: Multilingual Automatic Authoring	548
	Taxonomy-Based Adaptive Web Search Method	320
	SqueezeX: Synthesis and Compression of XML Data	326
	Automatic Information Discovery from the "Invisible Web"	332
	Bridging O-Telos and XML with XML Schema: The Authoring Environment for KBS Adaptive Hyperbook	338
	Information Transformations for Web Based Documentation	344
	Performance Driven Circuit Clustering and Partitioning	352
	FSM Implementation in Embedded Memory Blocks of Programmable Logic Devices Using Functional Decomposition	355
	Distributed Power Control Using the Simultaneous Mutation of Genetic Algorithms in Cellular Radio Systems	361
	Non-Scanning Display Method	365
	Scalar BPM Analyses of TE and TM Polarized Fields in Bent Waveguides	370
	A New Method of Optimal Coding	378
	t-Error Correcting/d-Error Detecting (d>t) and All Unidirectional Error Detecting Codes with Neural Network (Part II)	383
	On Synchronous Coding	390
	Coding k-ary Trees for Efficient Loopless Generation in Lexicographic Order	396
	A Model-Driven Joint Source and Channel Coder for MPEG-2 Video Transmission	404
	Joint Forward Error Correction and Error Concealment for Compressed Video	410
	Subjective-Quality-Based MPEG-2 Video Compression	416
	Coopration System of DSM-CC Data Carousel and MPEG-4 System via Satellite	421
	H.263 Video Transcoding for Spatial Resolution Downscaling	425
	Unified Method for Optimization of Several Video Coding Algorithms on General-Purpose Processors	431
	Optimal Video Stream Multiplexing through Linear Programming	440
	Delivery of MPEG-4 Object Based Multimedia in a Multicast Environment	446
	Content-Based Retransmission for 3-D Wavelet Video Streaming on the Internet	452
	QoS Control for Internet Delivery of Video Data	458
	Video Transfer Control Protocol for a Wireless Video Demonstrator	462
	E-Business Models for Reverse Logistics: Contributions and Challenges	470
	Synergies in Applying RAD to Support e-Business Project Management	477
	Management of Explicit and Implicit Knowledge in Consulting Companies	485
	E-Commerce: Continuous Growth or Leveling Out?	491
	Strategic Exploitation of ERP for E-Business	498
	Software Architectures for E-Commerce Computing Systems with External Hosting	504
	The Investigation of Mercury Presence in Human Blood: an Extrapolation from Animal Data Using Neural Networks	512
	Mining Aviation Data to Understand Impacts of Severe Weather on Airspace System Performance	518
	E-Class - A Multimedia and Web Based Distance Learning System	524
	A Methodology for Collection Selection in Heterogeneous Contexts	529
	Cost-Effective Planning of Timed Mobile Agents	536
	Author Index	555