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About the Authors 362 About the Authors About the Authors Daniel J. Buehrer was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. He received his B.S. in Physics and in Mathematics from Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin, in May, 1971. His M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science were received from the University of Iowa in December 1973 and May 1976, respectively. He was an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina from 1976-1979, at National Tsing Hua University from 1979-1986, and DePaul University from 1986-87. He worked at Rich, Inc. of Chicago from 1987-1988. He has been with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chung Cheng University since its beginning in 1989, and is now a full professor there. His major interests are artificial intelligence and object-oriented technology. Debasish Chakraborty received his Masters and Ph.D. in 1996 and 1999, respectively, from Tohoku University, Japan, in Information Science and Mathematics. He is presently working as a Research Associate in the Department of Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University. His research interests are multicast routing, traffic measurement and analysis, congestion control and wireless communication. Goutam Chakraborty received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Tohoku University, Japan. Presently he is an Associate Professor in the Iwate Prefectural University, Department of Software and Information Science, Japan. His research interests are soft computing tech- niques and their applications to solve different searching, scheduling and optimization problems, including applications in the area of Computer Networks and Mobile Networking. Chin-Chen Chang received his B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1977 and an M.S. degree in Computer and Decision Sciences in 1979, both from the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 1982 from the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. From August 1989 to July 1992, he was the head of, and a professor in, the Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. Chin-Chen Chang was on the faculty of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, from 1983 to 1989. Since August 1989, he has been a professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. Dr. Chang is a fellow of IEEE, and a member of the Chinese Language Computer Society, the Chinese Institute of Engineers of Republic of China, and the Phi Tau Phi Society of the Republic of China. His current research interests include database design, cryptography, image compression and data structures. Copyright © 2002, Idea Group Publishing. Distributed Multimedia Databases 363 Jan-Ru Chen received an M.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineer- ing from Fujen University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1999. Now, he is pursuing his Ph. D. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering , National Central University. His current research interests include digital watermarking, video processing, and information theory. Ming-Huang Chen received a B.S. degree from the Department of Information Manage- ment, National Taichung Institute of Technology. Currently, he is an engineer in Taiwan Power Company. His current research interests include information hiding and image coding. Tung-Shou Chen received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from National Chiao Tung University in 1986 and 1992, respectively, both in Computer Science and Information Engineering. Currently, he is a professor of the Department of Information Management at National Taichung Institute Technology, Taichung, Taiwan. His current research interests include data structures, image cryptosystems, and image compression. William Cheng-Chung Chu received his M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, in 1987 and 1989, respectively. Since 1998, he has been with the Department of Computer and Information Science at the TungHai University, Taiwan, where he is now a professor. From 1994 to 1998, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering at the Feng Chia University, Taiwan. In 1992, he was a Visiting Scholar to Department of Engineering Economic System at Stanford University, where he was involved in projects related to the design and development of Intelligent Knowledge-Based Expert Systems. His current research interests include the fields of software re-engineering, maintenance, reuse, software quality, and E-commerce. Sagarmay Deb received a Master of Science in Statistics from Gauhati University, India, in 1974, and an MBA from Long Island University, New York,USA, in 1977. Since 1978, he is working as a computer specialist in India, USA and Australia. He is currently involved in research works in The University of Southern Queensland, Australia, in the field of multimedia databases, content-based image retrieval, emergence index. He is a contributor to interna- tional journals and conferences. José-Fernando Díez-Higuera is an Assistant Professor of Fundamentals of Program- ming at the Department of Signal Theory, Communications and Telematic Engineering, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Communications Engineering in 1996 (Universidad de Valladolid). His main research interests include artificial neural networks, artificial vision, design of Web applications, Intelligent Transport Systems, and Telediagnosis. Jen-Wen Ding was born in Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1974. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Science from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1996, 1998, and 2001, respectively. He received the Acer Dragon Thesis Award for his outstanding Master’s Thesis in 1998. He has been with the Kun Shan University of Technology since 2001, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management. His research interests include multimedia storage systems and multimedia communications. 364 About the Authors Kuo-Chin Fan received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville in 1989. In 1983, he was a Computer Engineer with the Electronic Research and Service Organization (ERSO). In 1989, he joined the Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, where he became a Professor in 1994. He was the Chairman of the Department from 1994 to 1997. Currently, he is the Director of Computer Center, National Central University. His current research interests include image analysis, pattern recognition, and computer vision. He is a member of SPIE. Chi-wai Fung received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), his M.S. degree and his Ph.D. degree, both from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) in Computer Science. Currently, he is a senior lecturer at the Department of Computing, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tuen Mun), Vocational Training Council. He has published in international journals, books and confer- ences. His current research interests include query languages, conceptual clustering model, class partitioning, database indexing, multimedia databases, and XML databases. Borko Furht is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. He is the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory at FAU, funded by National Science Foundation. Before joining FAU, he was a Vice President of Research and a Senior Director of Development at Modcomp (1988-1992); a computer company of Daimler Benz, Germany; a Professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida (1982-1988); and Senior Scientist at Institute “Boris Kidric”-Vinca, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1970-1982). He received a Ph.D., MSEE, and B.S. (Dipl. Eng.) degrees from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1978, 1973, and 1970, respectively. He has published numerous scientific and technical papers, books, and holds several patents. He received research grants from NSF, NASA, IBM, Xerox, and Racal Datacom. He is an editor-in-chief of two journals - the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer Academic Publishers) and the Journal of Computers and Applications (Acta Press). He has presented at invited seminars and keynote addresses at many international conferences. He has received several technical and publishing awards, and has consulted for IBM, Hewlett- Packard, Xerox, General Electric, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, Samsung Data Systems, CyLex, Cordis Corporation, and RCA. William I. Grosky is currently Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Before joining Wayne State in 1976, he was an Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. His current research interests are multimedia information systems, hypermedia, databases, and web technology. Grosky received his B.S. in mathematics from MIT in 1965, his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1968, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1971. He has given many short courses in the area of database management for local industries and has been invited to lecture on multimedia information systems worldwide. Serving also on many database and multimedia conference program committees, he is currently
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