Multimedia Information Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Multimedia Information Systems serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.Multimedia Information Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Multimedia Information Systems serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.Guest Editorial; V.S. Subrahmanian, S.K. Tripathi. An Approach to a Content-Based Retrieval of Multimedia Data; G. Amato, G. Mainetto, P. Savino. Conceptual Modeling and Querying in Multimedia Databases; C. Baral, G. Gonzalez, Tran Son. QOS-Aware Middleware for Mobile Multimedia Communications; A.T. Campbell. BRAHMA: Browsing and Retrieval Architecture for Hierarchical Multimedia Annotation; A. Dan, D. Sitaram, J. Song. Handling Updates and Crashes in VoD Systems; Eenjun Hwang, K. Kilic, V.S. Subrahmanian. A Resource Reservation Scheme for Synchronized Distributed Multimedia Sessions; Wei Zhao, S.K. Tripathi.Springer Book Archives