Contents

• Introduction
  • About the course
  • Multimedia in control engineering
  • Tools and formalisms
• Multimedia Environments
  • Internet and Intranets - future perspectives
    • The basics of Internet and Intranet
      • The World Wide Web
      • E-mail
      • Mailing lists
      • News groups
      • IRC
      • FTP
    • Historical background
    • Current situation
    • Future trends
      • New programming languages
      • Network computer
      • The breakthrough of commerce
      • Teleworking
      • What about the future?
    • Problems in the Net
      • Security in the Internet
      • The slowness of the Internet
    • Curiosities found in the Web
  • Information searching and distributed databases
    • Introduction
    • WWW - World Wide Web
    • How to search information
      • Subject cataloques and keywords
      • Search engines and robots
      • Commercial information services
      • Search engines in the future
    • How to search information successfully
    • Quality of searched information
      • Interpreting URLs
    • Introducing Alta Vista and Ultraseek
      • Alta Vista
      • Ultraseek
    • Distributed Databases
      • Components of a Distributed Database System
      • Advantages and disadvantages
      • Some objectives in distributed databases
      • About concurrency control
      • Transaction Processing in a Distributed System
• Multimedia Applications
  • Data Mining and Document Modeling
    • Introduction
    • Data Mining Techniques
      • Rule and Decision Tree Induction
      • Statistical Techniques
      • Visualization
      • Clustering
      • Projection
      • Self-Organizing Map
    • Problems with the Data
    • Application example:
      Data Mining of Pharmaceutical Data
      • Types of Patterns that may be Identified through Data Mining
    • Textual Data Mining and WEBSOM
    • Final Remarks
• About this document ...

• Introduction
  • About the course
  • Multimedia in control engineering
  • Tools and formalisms