1. Editor’s Note

   • Klara Nahrstedt

   Editorial Pages: 181 - 182

2. Toward better retrieval and presentation by exploring cross-media correlations

   • Wei-Ta Chu
   • Herng-Yow Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 198

3. Quality-based I/O resource managementfor multimedia document database servers

   • M. Farrukh Khan
   • Halima Ghafoor
   • Sohail Sheikh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 219

4. A global timestamp-based approach to enhanced data consistency and fairness in collaborative virtual environments

   • Sung-Jin Kim
   • Falko Kuester
   • K. H. (Kane) Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 220 - 229

5. Hybrid and forward error correction transmission techniques for unreliable transport of 3D geometry

   • Zhihua Chen
   • J. Fritz Barnes
   • Bobby Bodenheimer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 230 - 244

6. Multimedia layout adaptation through grammatical specifications

   • Kang Zhang
   • Jun Kong
   • Guang-Lei Song

   OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 260

7. Video text detection and segmentation for optical character recognition

   • Chong-Wah Ngo
   • Chi-Kwong Chan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 272