A Unified Data Model for Representing Multimedia, Timeline, and Simulation Data

John David N. Dionisio and Alfonso F. Cárdenas,     The authors are with the Computer Science Department, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 3732 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596. E-mail address: dondi@itmedicine.net, cardenas@cs.ucla.edu

Abstract

This paper describes a unified data model that represents multimedia, timeline, and simulation data utilizing a single set of related data modeling constructs. A uniform model for multimedia types structures image, sound, video, and long text data in a consistent way, giving multimedia schemas and queries a degree of data independence even for these complex data ...

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