Advances in distributed multimedia systems

This volume addresses fundamental design issues and research topics related to multimedia systems, and provides a comprehensive study of the issues.

Topics covered include: distributed multimedia databases and computing; multiparadigmatic information retrieval; modelling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems; OS support for distributed multimedia systems; multimedia communications and networking; multimedia digital libraries and mail systems; multimedia human-computer interaction; multimedia applications for CSCW, distant education, electronic commerce teleconferencing and telemedicine; visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications; multimedia workflows; and multimedia stream synchronization.

In addition, a number of tutorial and overview articles are included so that the volume strikes a balance between introductory tutorials and advanced topics.