Technological advances are revolutionizing computers and
networks to supportdigital video and audio, leading to new
design spaces in computer systems and applications. Under
the surface of exciting multimedia technologies liesa mine
of research problems. This volume presents the proceedings
of an international workshop which brought together the
leading researchers in allaspects of multimedia computing,
communication, storage, and applications.
The field of multimedia has witnessed an explosive growth in
the last few years and the selection of papers for this
workshop was extremely competitive. The volume contains 26
full papers and 14 short papers selected from 128
contributions, organized into parts on: network and
operating system support for multimedia, multimedia
on-demand services, media synchronization, distributed
multimedia systems, network andoperating system support for
multimedia, multimedia models, frameworks, and document
architectures, and multimedia workstations and platforms.