Proc. of DMS 2010, 16th Int. Conf. on Distributed Multimedia Systems

Welcome to DMS 2010! This conference proceedings document the presentations for the 16th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2010). Multimedia has been growing from strength to strength and continues to expend in a huge number and varied subject areas in the digital world, with ever more exciting and important research and development for both academic and industrial domains. The DMS conference is an international conference series, which covers a wide spectrum of paper presentations, technical discussions and demonstrations in the fields of distributed multimedia computing. The main conference themes have been organized, according to a formula consolidated during past editions, into a number of thematic tracks offering to the conference attendants and to readers a convenient way to explore this vast amount of knowledge in an organized way. Two additional workshops which extended the main conference offerings, and complemented the conference program are: the International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies (DET 2010), and the International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing (VLC 2010). This year, the theme of the Conference is “Globalization and Personalization”, looking at both ends of the continuum exploring new possibilities and cutting edge state of the arts. Researchers from twenty-six countries submitted papers this year: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Yugoslavia, offering a truly “distributed” atmosphere and “globalization” nature to the conference. The sixty papers included in this proceedings are the results of a highly selective review process to pick the most creative work to fit into a very limited available time for the conference. First and foremost, we would like to thank all the authors who have submitted their works to DMS2010. Thanks for the quality of the submissions and all the innovative results and studies and thank you for choosing DMS as the place to present it. All of the authors who submitted papers, both accepted and regretfully rejected, are responsible for upholding the vitality and cutting edge level of the DMS program. We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge all the authors! Thanks to the Program Committee members who have offered enormous blocks of time from their busy schedules to carefully read and evaluate all the submissions. This program could not exist without their contributions. As program co-chairs, our work was made much easier by following the procedures developed, refined and passed along by the Steering Committee Chair Dr S.K. Chang and fantastic supports from the staff of the Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, including Dennis Chi, David Huang, Rachel Lu and Gabriel Smith. We are pleased to include two invited keynotes in the program. Thanks to our invited keynotes: Prof David Hung- Chang Du from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Prof Yi Deng from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. We are grateful to many people without whom this Conference would not be possible. Thanks to old and new friends, collaborators, institutions and organisations who have supported the conference. Last but not least, thanks to all participants of DMS2010. On behalf of the DMS2010 programme committees, we are delighted to welcome you to the 16th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2010). DMS 2010 Program co-Chairs: Paolo Nesi – DSI – University of Florence, Italy. nesi@dsi.unifi.it, www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi Kia Ng, ICSRiM – University of Leeds, UK. kia@kcng.org, www.kcng.org