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An Object-Oriented DataBase for Movies-on-Demand: Two Approaches §

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Parallel Computation (ACPC 1999)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1557))

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Interactive multimedia technology has seen a great deal of recent attention since it will allow its users with the flexibility of selecting and receiving specific information; many telecommunication industries and research groups are thus employing a lot of their resources to study the feasibility of new video services, nowadays known as Video on Demand (VoD). Among these services, T-VoD (True-VOD) services for movie on demand require the use of a bi-directional signal so that the user should be able to play a film with full (virtual) VCR capabilities.

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  1. IRSIP - CNR, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy

    Francesco Amalfitano, Antonio d’Acierno & Ivana Marra

  2. DIS - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy

    Lucio Sansone

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  1. Forschungsinstitut für Softwaretechnologie, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Peter Zinterhof

  2. Slovac Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Laboratory for Informatics, Dubravska 9, P.O.Box 56, 840 00, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Marian Vajteršic

  3. Universität Salzburg, RIST++, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Andreas Uhl

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Amalfitano, F., d’Acierno, A., Marra, I., Sansone, L. (1999). An Object-Oriented DataBase for Movies-on-Demand: Two Approaches §. In: Zinterhof, P., Vajteršic, M., Uhl, A. (eds) Parallel Computation. ACPC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1557. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49164-3_58

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