Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video

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.