1. Guest Editorial

   • V.S. Subrahmanian
   • Satish K. Tripathi

   Special issue: Multimedia Information Systems Pages: 1 - 1

2. A constraint-based approach to shape management in multimedia databases

   • Elisa Bertino
   • Barbara Catania

   Special issue: Multimedia Information Systems Pages: 2 - 16

3. Packet audio playout delay adjustment: performance bounds and algorithms

   • Sue B. Moon
   • Jim Kurose
   • Don Towsley

   Special issue: Multimedia Information Systems Pages: 17 - 28

4. Merging video streams in a multimedia storage server: complexity and heuristics

   • Siu-Wah Lau
   • John C.S. Lui
   • Leana Golubchik

   Special issue: Multimedia Information Systems Pages: 29 - 42

5. The multimedia multicasting problem

   • Joseph C. Pasquale
   • George C. Polyzos
   • George Xylomenos

   Regular papers Pages: 43 - 59

6. Performability of disk-array-based video servers

   • Scott A. Barnett
   • Gary J. Anido

   Regular papers Pages: 60 - 74