This book focuses on one of the most exciting aspects of the Internet: the broadcasting of multimedia content. It draws together research from projects by some of the most active and prominent research groups and individuals working in this field across the world. The text explores multimedia webcast issues such as quality technology and interface. It will be of particular interest to research groups and students in the field of internet technology, technical specialists in networks and telematics, and computer scientists involved in event broadcasts and remote skills transfer. The book is one of the first titles in our new series, Computer Communications and Networks.

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1. Human Computer Interaction, Quality of Service, and Multimedia Internet Broadcasting.- 2. Advanced Digital User Behaviour Analysis (ADUBA).- 3. The Influence of Network Quality of Service Factors on the Usability and Effectiveness of Multimedia Internet Broadcasting.- 4. Distributed Global Conferences over Heterogeneous Networks.- 5. Globa1360/NICE Video Conference Model.- 6. Towards an Advanced Quality of Service Architecture.- 7. Changes and Challenges: Mass Customised Media and the Internet.- 8. Regulatory Trends in Webcasting in the United States, the European Union, and Japan: Focusing on Universal Service.- 9. A Source-adaptive Multi-layered Multicast Algorithm for Internet Video Distribution.- 10. An Adaptive Resource Broker for Multimedia Teleservices.- 11. The Token Repository Service: A Universal and Scalable Mechanism for Constructing Multicast Acknowledgment Trees.