A flexible content and context-based access control model for multimedia medical image database systems

摘要

Welcome to the 9th ACM Multimedia Conference, held Sept. 30-Oct.5, 2001 in Ottawa, Ontario, the Capital city of Canada. This beautiful city is often called "Silicon Valley North" because of the high concentn'ation of major telecommunications and software companies, such as NORTEL, ALCATEL, CISCO, MITEL, COREL, COGNOS, JDS Uniphase, Entrust and many others. The conference complements this setting by presenting and exploring technological and artistic advancements in multimedia. Technical issues, theory and practice, artistic and consumer innovations will bring together researchers, artists, developers, educators, performers, and practitioners of multimedia. This conference is sponsored by NTT, ALCATEL, HP, Fuji- Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and its special interest groups SIGMM, SIGGRAPH, and SIGCOMM.