1. Editor's Note

   • Klara Nahrstedt

   Regular paper Pages: 339 - 339

2. A retrospective on the design of the GOPI middleware platform

   • Geoff Coulson
   • Shakun Baichoo
   • Oveeyen Moonian

   Regular paper Pages: 340 - 352

3. Robust and efficient content-based digital audio watermarking

   • Changsheng Xu
   • David Dagan Feng

   Regular paper Pages: 353 - 368

4. A systematic rate controller for MPEG-4 FGS video streaming

   • Tianming Liu
   • Hong-Jiang Zhang
   • Feihu Qi

   Regular paper Pages: 369 - 379

5. Constructing a video server with tertiary storage: Practice and experience

   • Hojung Cha
   • Jongmin Lee
   • Jaehak Oh

   Regular paper Pages: 380 - 394

6. Middleware + multimedia = multimedia middleware?

   • Thomas Plagemann

   Special issue on Multimedia Middleware Pages: 395 - 396

7. A proxy architecture for collaborative media streaming

   • Verena Kahmann
   • Lars Wolf

   Special issue on Multimedia Middleware Pages: 397 - 405

8. Infopipes: An abstraction for multimedia streaming

   • Andrew P. Black
   • Jie Huang
   • Calton Pu

   Special issue on Multimedia Middleware Pages: 406 - 419

9. An integrated runtime QoS-aware middleware framework for distributed multimedia applications

   • Baochun Li
   • Dongyan Xu
   • Klara Nahrstedt

   Special issue on Multimedia Middleware Pages: 420 - 430

10. Dynamic end-to-end QoS management middleware for distributed multimedia systems

    • Denise J. Ecklund
    • Vera Goebel
    • Earl F. Ecklund Jr.

    Special issue on Multimedia Middleware Pages: 431 - 442