Technologies for the Information Society

Contents

Foreword

International Editorial Advisory Panel

Part I: Business, Strategy and Policy Issues

On the way to Pervasive Computing: New Challenges for the Information System
C. Boulle

Information Orientation Strategy of Gifu Prefecture
T. Morimoto

The Global Networked Business Comes of Age
Y. Le Roux

Vision and Virtual Reality
R. Frampton

Internet Commerce and Selling Over the Internet: Benefits and Challenges
R. Fleming

Trust in Online Commerce
D. Kueter and M.S. Marshall

Virtual Clustering in the Multimedia Authoring Industry: A Personal Experience in Building a Medium Size Company
H.G. Stijns

Broadband Networking - Key to the Information Society
G. Wahlberg

CEN/ISSS's Approach to Standards for the Information Society
J. Ketchell

An Oasis of Motoring Innovation: OMI and the Automotive Industry
G. Duncan

Impact of OMI on Consumer Electronics
A. Molina

The Death of Distance: OMI and the Communication Industry
C. Bruin

Designers' World
P. Arundel

OMI - Developments in Processor Cores and Peripherals
T. Gore

Part II: Small and Medium Size Enterprises

Marketing SME Capability: An Internet Application
P. Shakeshaft

The Role of Electronic Commerce for Portuguese SMEs in the Global Marketplace
A.D. Silva and J.F. Cunha

Electronic Commerce - Expectations and Realities for SMEs
D. Eccles

Electronic Commerce Commercial Scenarios, Business Models and Technologies for SMEs
V. Ouzounis

ICNET: An Effective Model for Evaluating the Benefits of Endogenous Internet Based Systems in SMEs
H. Nóvoa and J.F. Cunha

AGENTISME (assessment of global engineering technology) offers best practice solutions of electronic commerce for small and medium sized companies
L. Coyette and S. Ruch

A New Challenge for SMEs: The Electronic Trading of Intangible Assets
F. Meinköhn

Support to Project Proposers Under the IST Programme
P. Drath, R. Pleger, L. Höhe, R. Gagliardi and S. Muscella

Successful Proposals for European Commission Research and Technological Development Programmes
P. Drath

Best Practice for SMEs - Prominent Experiences for the Future
V. Mjaaland, G. Horn and C. Derler

SMEs Best Practice Business Model in OMI
A. Furlani and G. Ravizza

Assisting SMEs to Exploit their Intellectual Property - The assistec Project
T. Dent, N. Krim and I. Pearson

The TEFT Program - Technology Transfer á la carte
P. Schjølberg-Henriksen and Mons Grøvlen

 

Part III: Electronic Commerce

Barriers to Electronic Commerce
M.N. Storrøsten

Survey on Trust Enhancing Products in the Security Domain
S. Perlusz and M. Wilikens

A Low-cost Internet Packet Filter
R.D. Warren and J. Tyler

Filing Patent Applications Electronically
M. Blumenfeld

Using Autonomous Agents in Internet Marketing: A Discussion on Subjective Product Characteristics in Agent Assisted Trade
E.O. Wallin and C.J.K. Persson

Mobile Agents Based Architecture for Building Virtual Markets
A. Pan, A. Lopez, F. Cacheda and A. Viña

An Agent System for Comparative Shopping at the Point of Sale
G. Zacharia, A. Moukas, R. Guttman and P. Maes

Exploiting Intelligent Agents to Provide Customised Services in an Internet Shop
P. Montrasio, M. Lorio, G. Ferrari and E. Pessi

Guided Internet Tours: Using Web-based Knowledge in a Contextualized Validated Educational Environment
H. Schumacher and M. Birk

 

Furniture Business Meets the Internet
R. Malkewitz

Information Objects - The First Virtual Software House in Switzerland
K. Stanoevska-Slabeva, B. Schmid and P. Heartsch

Medical Products Electronic Commerce
N. Katevas, E. Marinos, I. Vlachos, S. Palamas, O. Panou-Diamandi, C. Zeelenberg, C. van Nimwegen and S. Smith

A Novel Fully Automated Web Server for Weather Satellite Images
A. Trasser, M. Buck, M. Birk and H. Schumacher

Producing Distributed Education for the Corporate Intranet
A. Jonsson

Object-orientation, Java, CORBA: The Latest Technologies for an Innovative ERP-system
A. Kees

Collaborative Virtual Environments
S. Noll, A. Gräff and N. Schiffner

A Laboratory Information Management System Using Open Internet Standards
M. Birk, R. Ehler and H. Schumacher

Covering Spectator Events for a Remote Audience Using Web-based Technology
A. Jonsson

Extranet-based Maintenance and Customization of Tourism Information in TIScover
B. Pröll, W. Retschitzegger and R.R. Wagner

Edutainment on the Internet
V. Ionesco

Electronic Commerce: Redefing the Transportation Model
C. Joyce

Relay Food Project: Remote Life Cycle Support for Industrial Machineries: A Pilot Project in the Food Industry
S. Dellapina

Esprit Project 29176 CoSEPPA: A Co-operative Sever for Exalting and Promoting Plastic Arts
E.F. Kouka

Data Mining Techniques in Electronic Shopping Malls
L. Moussy, M. Mulvenna, A. Büchner and J. Clinton

Business-to-business Electronic Trading as Co-operative Workflows
A. Lehtola, T. Lillqvist, K. Kekki and S. Hakkarainen

Internet-based Infobroker for Electronic Commerce
R. Horstmann, U. Timm and P. Schumann

A Framework for Agent Based Information Brokerage Services in Electronic Commerce
V. Camps, P. Glize, M.P. Gleizes, A. Leger, E. Athanassiou and N. Lakoumentas

Web Auctions
M. Kylänpää and T. Pitkänen

A Framework for Developing Web Based Information Systems
M. Ojsteršek, U. Novak, Z. Cajic

Management Support for Content and Design Objects of Joint Web Sites
B. Holtkamp and M. Wojciechowski

Towards a New Web Application Development Practices
W. Drakos, A. Papazafeiropoulou, A. Poulymenakou and G. Doukidis

Taking Feedback Seriously - Management of Dynamic Customer Interaction on Commercial WWW-sites
F. Meyer

 

TRiAls in the Domain of Electronic Commerce: The TRADE Project
M. Mastretti and E.Paolillo

Integration of Electronic Commerce Business Processes in Virtual Enterprises
V. Ouzounis and V. Tschammer

Chaotic Encryption - An Innovative Technology in Secure Communications
J. Ulbikas, K. Naudzius, A. Tamasevicius and A. Cenys

Infrastructures for Electronic Marketspaces - A Comparison of TINA and Internet Concepts
K. Geihs, R. Farsi and A. Alireza

Advanced Service Creation Environment: Practices Implementation and Application
E.C. Tzifa, P.P. Demestichas, M.A. Lambrou, A. Kaltabani, S. Kotrotsosa and M.E. Anagnostou

A Catalog Generator for Electronic Virtual Components
B. Behnam, A. Amoura, B. Babba, P. Coeurdevey and G. Saucier

An Approach to the Scientific Documental Parameters of the Internet: Internet as Document
M.R. Osuna Alarcon

Organisation: Electronic Commerce and the Euro Single Market
E. Blot-Lefevre

TAPPE is Creating a Market Place for European Public Procurers
S. Bauck

Making More Profitable Your Bids in a Competitive Environment
G. Raynard and H. Soliveres

 

Part IV: Multimedia

Application-driven Requirements for Digital Watermarking Technology
A. Piva, M. Barni, F. Bartolini and V. Cappellini

Assessing the Feasibility of Using a Media I/O Processor in a VOD Server
M. Weeks, H. Batatia, R. Sotudeh and M. Maierhofer

VICAR - An Automatic Video Annotation System
H. Müller, W. Haas and P. Uray

Analysis and Processing of Compressed Newsfeeds
G. Falkemeier, G. Joubert and O. Kao

Development of a Head-up Display with LCD on Silicium Light Valve for Enhance Vision Application
F. de Lauzun

MEDStation: Bringing Together Medical Imaging and Diagnosis
A. Kugler, T. Grunert, E. Becker and W. Strasser

Visions and Realities in the NewsPad Constituency
A. Molina

Image Database Management with Content Based Techniques
R. Vaccaro and S. Dellepiane

GRiNS: A Graphical Interface for Creating and Playing SMIL Documents
D. Bulterman, L. Hardman, S. Mullender, L. Rutledge, M. Prime and M. Wilson

MELISSA: Methods and Tools for Natural Language Interfacing to Standard
Software
K. Tran-Huy

A Framework for Integrating Custom Applications into Multimedia Annotations
H. Benz, S. Fischer and R. Mecklenburg

AMUSE: A Comprehensive Distributed Multimedia Service Platform
M. Di Concetto, G. Pavarani, C. Rosa, F. Rossi and M. Boscolo

An Assessment of Technologies for Multimedia Data Streaming
M. Maierhofer, C. Baily, R. Sotudeh and M. Weeks

Effort Estimation for Multimedia Information Systems Development
S. Lechtenberg and G.R. Joubert

MovieDNA and its Use in Copyright Protection
P. Uray and H. Müller-Seelich

Some Case Studies for a New Multimedia Authoring Tool: Lessons Learnt
X. Alaman and S. de Arechaga

Products Distribution with Map and Multimedia
R. Tsankova and H. Teliatinov

Augmented reality for Collaborative Telepresence Applications
E. Ottar

An Anatomic Human Body for Motion Capture
R. Boulic, P. Fua, L. Herda, M. Silaghi, J.-S. Monzani, L. Nedal and D. Thalmann

Applying Compression Techniques to Medical Image: The Case of Mammographic Images
R.G. Carrion, L.P. Gomez, P.G. Rodriguez, E. Cernadas and J.J. Vidal

Educable: A Multimedia Educational System for Distance Learning on Interactive Networks
L. Ardao, C. Patiño, A. Molano and A. Viña

The BreakIT Medical MM Application: Breast Cancer Pathology Information Kit Using On and Off-line IT
F. Cardinali

Marketing DFILM
F. Kolvenbach

Virtual Class: A Long-life Learning Telematics Tool for SMEs
B. Rodríguez Pajares, M.A. Perez Juarez, M.J. Verdu Perez, M.A. Navazo Suela, R. Mompo Gomez, R. Lopez Fernandez and J. Garcia Carrasco

 

Part V: Embedded Systems

Automating Quality Assurance for Intellectual Property Cores
W. Luk and D. Siganos

COSY: A Methodology for System Design Based on Reusable Hardware and Software IP's
J.-Y. Brunel, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, R. Kress and W. Kruytzer

IP - Is Design for Reuse the Same as Design for IP Trading?
T. Dent

Challenges in IP Reuse
P. Delforge

Automatic Fruit Quality Sorting Using Computer Vision Techniques
M.M.M. Fahmy

Musical Sounds Synthesis with a High and Foreseeable Accuracy
E. Leautey and G. Charbonneau

Extended Memory Card
P. Biget and J.-J Vandewalle

Smart Electric Water Heaters in Europe
A. Kung, C. Vinci, G. Williams and B. Ziegler

Automated Numerical and Data Range Analysis of Control Software
G. Schumacher

Development Assistant for C: A Development and Maintenance Environment
D. Bojic and D. Velasevic

SAFELAND: A Fault-tree Based Environment to Software Safety Analysis
V.C. Gerogiannis and M.A. Tsoukarellas

The MISRA C Language Subset for Safety Related Embedded Systems
P. Edwards, R. Rivett and G.n McCall

Embedded Logic Technology and its Application
P.F. Lister, N. Ford, M.C. Basett, I. Stamoulis, S. McCann and M. White

A Noise-robust Speech Processing and Recognition Development System
P. Gómez, A. Alvarez, R. Martínez, V. Rodellar and V. Nieto

A Lightweight Ethernet Protocol to Connect a Time-triggered Real-time System to An Internet Server
M. Kucera, I. Smaili and E. Fuchs

The Business of Searching for Synergy in Transport Embedded Systems: Issues and Opportunities
G. Duncan and A. Assouline

CADnet Framework: An Open Platform for Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Chip Design
N. Krim, B. Courtois and B. Conq

Compiler Techniques for Fast Migration of Embedded Applications
T.S. Gaul and G. Schumacher

An Integrated Solution for Time-to-market in Embedded Systems
E. Bullo and E. Pessi

Handling Adaptive Behaviour in Real-time Systems
Y. Berbers

POLICOM: Power Line Communications ASIC
E. Ramos

Customized Implementation of the TCP/IP Protocol for
Interconnectivity Applications in an 80C51 Microcontroller
E. Merino Rubio and F.J. Cortés Santaolalla

Integration of Internet and JavaTM Technologies on the EOS Real Time Operating System
F. Aliverti, S. Arnone and E. Pessi

Next Generation Telecommunication Processors for ISDN/LAN Applications
Gr. Doumenis, V. Kaloudis and P. Karmazin

Low Cost Access to Advanced Technologies for Prototyping and Small Volume
N. Krim and B. Courtois

SETTA: A Systems Engineering Environment for Time-triggered Architectures
C. Scheidler, E. Fuchs and A. Baecker

A HW-SW Co-design Methodology for Embedded Telecommunication Systems
S.K. Tsasakou, N. Voros, H. Karathanasis, C. Valderrama, S. Arab, M. Birbas and A. Birbas

Guide-Man A New Audio-guide
A. Eisenstein

Rolltalk - Integration of a Communication Bus in a Complete Aid for Severely Disabled
T. Myhre

The GPFT Portable Fleet Terminal Project
J. Kikidis, A. Voros, D. Marinakis and C. Koulouris

RADOM: A Low-cost Prototyping Environment for Microprocessor-based Systems
V. Mariatos, M. Birbas, J. Hallas and J. Kikidis

V-NET: An Adapter Card for Wireless Local Area Networks
S. Koutroubinas, A.M. Maniatopoulos, M. Iliopoulos and T. Antonakopoulos

SA2 - Strong Arm Based Architecture for High Performance Low Cost ATM Equipment
G. Ciardiello and M. Jonsson

 

Virtual Device: Toying with Solid State Physics?
A. Negoi, S. Bara, A. Guyot and J. Zimmermann

VISCP: An Interactive System for Practical Training on Digital Electronics
L. Rodríguez-Pardo, M.J. Moure, M.D. Valdés and E. Mandado

Development and Dissemination of Technology Within a University-Industry Framework
J. Peire, M. Castro, C. de Mora, A. Molina, J. Cigarran and A. Lopez-Rey

Author Index