@book {IOPORT.00795991,
    editor       = {Jajodia, Sushil and Subrahmanian, V.S.},
    title        = {Multimedia database systems: issues and research directions.},
    year         = {1996},
    isbn         = {3-540-58710-1},
    pages        = {xvi, 323~p.},
    publisher    = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag},
    abstract     = {[The articles of this volume will not be reviewed individually.] With the advent of the information superhighway, a vast amount of data is currently available on the Internet. The concurrent advances in the areas of image, video, and audio capture, and the spectacular explosion of CD- ROM technology has led to a wide array of non-traditional forms of data being available across the network as well. Image data, video data, audio data, all perhaps stored in multiple, heterogeneous formats, traditionally form the ``core'' of what is known today as multimedia data. Despite the proliferation of such forms of media data, as well as the proliferation of a number of commercially available tools to manipulate this data, relatively little work has been done on the principles of multimedia information systems. What common characteristics do all these different media-types have in common? Can these characteristics be exploited so as to provide a ``common core'' skeleton that can be used as a platform on which other multimedia applications can be built? If so, how can this be accomplished? These, and other questions arise in the context of such multimedia systems. In this book, we bring together a collection of papers that address each of these questions, as well as a number of other related questions.},
    identifier   = {00795991},
}