1. Guest Editorial

   • W.S. Subrahmanian
   • Satish K. Tripathi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 7

2. An Approach to a Content-Based Retrieval of Multimedia Data

   • Giuseppe Amato
   • Giovanni Mainetto
   • Pasquale Savino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 36

3. Conceptual Modeling and Querying in Multimedia Databases

   • Chitta Baral
   • Graciela Gonzalez
   • Tran Son

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 66

4. Qos-aware Middleware for Mobile Multimedia Communications

   • Andrew T. Campbell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 82

5. Brahma: Browsing and Retrieval Architecture for Hierarchical Multimedia Annotation

   • Asit Dan
   • Dinkar Sitaram
   • Junehwa Song

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 101

6. Handling Updates and Crashes in VoD Systems

   • Eenjun Hwang
   • Kemal Kilic
   • V.S. Subrahmanian

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 132

7. A Resource Reservation Scheme for Synchronized Distributed Multimedia Sessions

   • Wei Zhao
   • Satish K. Tripathi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 146