Multimedia information systems: A comparison perspective of social web sites

Abstract

In ISs, resource objects like databases are distributed and replicated in order to increase the performance, reliability and availability. In an earlier work, we extended the earlier existing taxonomy of ISs [10]. In this paper, we have revised the taxonomy further by including WIS, SWIS and MMIS. We shall discuss various characteristics of MMIS and the effect of the network on required quality of presentation for MMIS. MMIS input strings provide an efficient means for iconic indexing of the temporal/spatial relations of media streams and semantic objects. Today more information sources become available as MMISs. Hence, the development of abstract semantic models for video, audio, text, graphics and image data became very important. In this paper, we have tabulated a comparison feature study of a variety of MMISs web sites. It is found that most of the modern web sites use maximum degree of multimedia support.